can't mount Volume Group

[Tony Alfrey]

C M Reinehr wrote:
> On Sun 31 July 2011 05:35:59 am Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>> Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>>> Hello;
>>>>
>>>> System has 2 SATA drives.  I chainload the second from LILO on the
>>>> first.  That works perfectly.
>>>>
>>>> The second drive sdb has Fedora on it.
>>>> sdb1 is a boot partition
>>>> sdb2 is a Logical Volume
>>>>
>>>> lvdisplay shows the Volume Group and the Logical Volumes,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --
>>>>
>>>> linux:~ # lvdisplay /dev/VolGroup00
>>>>
>>>>   --- Logical volume ---
>>>>   LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>>>>   VG Name                VolGroup00
>>>>   LV UUID                FSHbaz-XXgb-oaMy-9Jf2-rYnD-K4mg-AN5mXg
>>>>   LV Write Access        read/write
>>>>   LV Status              NOT available
>>>>   LV Size                465.03 GB
>>>>   Current LE             14881
>>>>   Segments               1
>>>>   Allocation             next free (default)
>>>>   Read ahead sectors     0
>>>>   
>>>>   --- Logical volume ---
>>>>   LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
>>>>   VG Name                VolGroup00
>>>>   LV UUID                p93KII-5ZU6-PxoD-d0hs-soKg-7Tbc-R4raVf
>>>>   LV Write Access        read/write
>>>>   LV Status              NOT available
>>>>   LV Size                512.00 MB
>>>>   Current LE             16
>>>>   Segments               1
>>>>   Allocation             next free (default)
>>>>   Read ahead sectors     0
>>>>
>>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>>>
>>>> The first is Fedora and the second is swap.
>>>> But I can't mount the volumes.
>>>> I'm betting that
>>>>
>>>> LV Status       NOT available
>>>>
>>>> might be a clue.
>>>> Does anyone know how to make it available without corrupting it?
>>>> Remember, I can boot it (maybe I am booting the boot partition
>>>> /dev/sdb1 and then somehow from there the volumes on sdb2 are mounted).
>>>> Thanks!
>>> In addition, when I boot Fedora (on sdb) and then run lvdisplay, then LV
>>> Sataus is Available (I guess that would be obvious).
>>>
>>> So any ideas on how to get the volumes Avaible would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>> Sorry for answering my post.
>> And finally I see that maybe I can use
>>
>> lvm  vgchange -al--available y /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>>
>> Can someone look at that and tell me if it looks right before I go and
>> break this freaking thing?
>>
>> Thanks
> 
> I think that all you'll need is:
> 
> #lvchange --available y VolGroup00/LogVol00
> 
> and
> 
> #lvchange --available y VolGroup00/LogVol01
> 
> At any rate, you're not going to break anything. :-)



Yes, thanks.  It seemed to like /dev/VolGroup00 and that made both 
volumes happy.



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