Startup/Shutdown scripts for RH6.2?

Hello,

Of course I'm a newbie :) I'm been experimenting with LVM
prior to a production installation. I've got everything working pretty well with a RH6.2 installation and a custom kernel. However, I'm a bit stuck on the startup/shutdown scripts. I've tried a couple of things after searching the archives, but nothing seems to work (i.e. the volume groups are not found and then mount complains very loudly). Any suggestions/tips/code?

TIA,

Jeff Layton

I had the same problem too at one time. But I added appended script in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit right after the RAID initialization and right before the file system starts getting checked (before _RUN_QUOTACHECK). I added the stop script in /etc/init.d/halt.
I found this script in the group archive.

## LVM
#scan for VGs and create /dev entries.
if [ -x /sbin/vgscan -a -d /proc/lvm ]; then
action "LVM: Scanning for Volume Groups" /sbin/vgscan
fi
#activate all VGs
if [ -x /sbin/vgchange -a -e /proc/lvm ]; then
action "LVM: Activating Volume Groups" /sbin/vgchange -ay
fi
## End LVM

Hope this helps

This will only work (AFAICS) when LVM is compiled into the kernel, because /proc/lvm will not exist if it is a module. My startup has this first:

[ ! -e /proc/lvm ] && (modprobe lvm || modprobe lvm_mod) 2> /dev/null

Cheers, Andreas

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