On Thursday 05 April 2007 09:26, Noam Meltzer wrote: > On 4/5/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > QUESTION #3 - While GOOGLing for this, I found some mentions of EVMS. I > > seem > > to remember that on a previous version of Mandriva I had disk-access > > problems > > until I un-installed EVMS. But now, I see that it's installed on my > > system. > > Do I need it and if so, why? > > AFAIK, EVMS stands for Enterprise Volume Management System. It is some > opensource project targeted at providing the sysadmin a consolidated way to > manage all the storage devices he has no matter what technology is used to > administer them. (LVM / MD / etc.) > I played around with this tool once, and as far as I recall, it takes > advantage of device-mapper in the process, though I can't remember how.
<< snip snip>> > In the bottom line, disabling device-mapper in some kernel hack did the > trick. Just be aware that if you run 'depmod -a' it will not sustain. (Same > goes for a kernel upgrade). > Best way is to understand where it is configured that your sdc devices > should be managed by device-mapper. (recursive grep on /etc is a good > start). > > Device mapper gives you the flexibility to manage your devices in an easier > way. It is modular and robust (bla bla). It can be used to encrypt your > devices, have LVM over them, and many other neat features. Anyhow, I don't > think that any of this "robust" features are speaking to you, because you > chose to partition all your disks into very small parts in a very > "hardcoded" way. > > - Noam As I wrote earlier, Noam pointed me in the right direction and I got all partitions mounted. However, he was also correct that: 1 - the link he pointed me to (it suggested commenting out some lines in modules.dep) was only a temporary hack 2 - on my system, I probably don't need device-mapper BUT, uninstalling dmsetup in Mandriva is apparently non-trivial, so I did a bit more research and decided to uninstall evms instead. I'm happy to say that this solved the problem. Again, thanks to all who helped, and of course especially to Noam who pointed me in the right direction. -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail (KDE 3.5.4) on LINUX Mandriva 2007 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
