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On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 13:53 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: |
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> > You mean the 1 extra command that's needed to assemble a VG? |
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> It wasn't that easy, that's what I did in the end: |
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> 1) vgchange -a n |
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> 2) vgexport -a |
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> 3) vgimport -a |
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> 4) vgscan --mknodes |
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> 5) vgchange -a y |
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#5 is all I've ever had to do. The first 3 look pointless to me. #5 |
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takes care of #4 for you. |
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> Maybe 4) and 5) alone would do the trick... I don't remember which |
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> livecd I used then, except for the fact that I had to reboot |
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> with "dolvm2" option; now I have a tested "first aid kit" with notes |
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> on |
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> paper (all my notes were on those discs at the time) with well known |
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> and proven liveCDs. |
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I've never had to dolvm2 either. I'm guessing that's a Gentoo live cd |
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thing. I rarely use the Gentoo live cds because they always seem out of |
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date (although I understand they build daily snapshots now). |
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