I'm having a very strange problem. I needed to make a public repository for the contents of five CD's, so I set up a Linux server using SuSE 2.2.16. For five CD's, I figured two volumes ought to hold the contents.
I added two 3390-3 full-pack volumes to Linux and did a dasdfmt on them. I went into YAST and created a logical volume group "vgcd" and a logical volume "lvcd" using these two volumes. I did a mke2fs on the logical volume /dev/vgcd/lvcd I was able to mount /dev/vgcd/lvcd as /mnt and was able to do a "df' and see them and copy some files to them So far, so good. Everything looking just fine. Now, the wierd part: I manually umounted /dev/vgcd/lvcd, shut down and rebooted Linux. After the reboot, the device /dev/vgcd/lvcd does not exist. vgscan says "vgscan -- no volume groups found" pvscan says "pvscan -- no valid physical volumes found" vgck says "vgck -- no volume groups found" pvdisplay /dev/vgcd/lvcd says "invalid physical volume name "/dev/vgcd/lvcd" ls /dev/lvcd says "No such file or directory" If I go back into YAST to do it all over, it says I can't create volume group "vgcd" because it already exists. But it doesn't show up in the list of volume groups. Can anyone point me to where I might find out why I can't keep a logical volume? "Never trust any computer you can lift." Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company
