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 I rarely use the Gentoo live cds because they always seem out of date (although I understand they build daily snapshots now).
