LVM1 problems with FC2test1/FC1

[Taylor, ForrestX]

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 13:29, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 13:18, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > On Mar  9, 2004, "Taylor, Forrest" <forrestx.taylor at intel.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Running vgck says that there are no volume groups.  When I boot back
> > > into FC2, everything works fine.
> > 
> > Try vgcfgbackup/vgcfgrestore.  This sometimes cleans up junk left by
> > lvm2 tools.  I've run into this kind of problem after
> > lvreduce/lvremove IIRC.
> 
> I just tried that.  I restored from the original conf file
> (Volume00.conf.5.old).  Now LVM works in FC1, but not in FC2.  I tried
> to restore from the latest (Volume00.conf), but it says that it cannot
> restore part of active volume group "Volume00".  It even gives this
> error if I try to use the original file again.
> 
> BTW, I just installed FC2test1 with FC1 again on another machine.  I
> didn't format any LVM partitions during installation.  I can create LVM
> partitions in FC2 and FC1, and they both work...  I'll try a format in
> anaconda to see if that may have been the problem.

I cannot seem to replicate the problem now.  I guess that it was just a
weird quirk.  Next time I'll try to restore/backup from the FC2 OS.

Forrest