Converting the root filesystem to ReiserFS on LVM...

[Sergey Kuznetsov]

On Monday 05 April 2004 18:21, Anton Markov wrote:

If someone need the self-sufficient (32 Mbytes compressed to 14 megabytes) 
rescue disk, I can spare mine.
I put all stuff needed to work in autonomous mode on it.
It have even Midnight Commander.
All you need is add some additional XFS/JFS/ReiserFS stuff, and provide some 
additional params to kernel init line.


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> Hi Madison,
>
> Madison Kelly wrote:
> > When I use the FC1 cd I can't unmount '/mnt/sysimage' which is seen
> > as
> > the LVM device '/dev/VG00/LV00', it keeps saying the device or
> > resource
> > is busy (despite being out of the directory and running off the CD).
> > When I try to boot off either rescue CD 'root' isn't mounted but then
> > I
> > can't find the darn LVM partitions (and yes I made sure that the
> > rescue
> > CDs supported LVM and ReiserFS).
>
> I don't know about Fedora rescue disks, but on Redhat 9 disks it was
> possible to not have the root filesystem mounted by the rescue system
> automaticly. See if there is one for the Fedora disks.
>
> >   Under Fedora the devices I need to mount are on:
> >
> > /dev/VG00/LV00 = '/' (currently ext3)
> > /dev/VG00/LV01 = '/backup' (reiserfs)
> > /dev/VG00/LV02 = '/snapshot' (reiserfs)
> >
> >   Under the two rescue CDs though there is no '/dev/VG00...'. Where
> > would I find those partitions? I tried looking under '/dev/' but the
> > only thing relevant I could find was '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/'
> > and there was no sign of the LVM partitions (nor under variants like
> > 'bus1', etc.).
>
> After the lvm-mod module is successfully loaded, you have to issue the
> "vgscan" command to detect the volume groups. It should say something
> like "volume group VG00 found". Then you have to run "vgchange -ay" to
> activate the volume group. That should create the /dev/VG00/... files
> and directories for you automaticly.
>
>
> - --
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