VG does not activate at boot

Hi,

I 'm having a slight problem/inconvenience with LVM and need some assistance. Everytime I boot the system, the VG's do not come up active and subsequently, some fs don't mount. The error I get indicates the underlying device for the fs is not a valid device. 'vgdisplay' says the the VG is not active, which running 'vgdisplay -D' confirms. Running 'vgchange -a y swvg' resolves the problem, activates the VG and I can mount the fs. LVM support is compiled into the kernel. I'm running kernel 2.4.3 and lvm_0.9.1_beta7. Right now, I'm using it mainly for testing and no essential fs are using LVM so it is not a critical issue, still, I'd like to know how to resolv this.

Thanks

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you should add the vgchange command into your initscripts. I'm running RedHat and I added this into rc.sysinit, right below the init of raid devices:

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| action "LVM: Scanning for Volume Groups" vgscan | action "LVM: Activating Volume groups" vgchange -ay `----

I probably should just tell you to RTFM a little as well:

<url: http://www.sistina.com/lvm/doc/lvm_howto/node8.html
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Terje