Re: cant mount second drive

[Ambrogio <fn050202 flashnet it>]

Il giorno lun, 22/01/2007 alle 10.52 -0800, Rick Stevens ha scritto:

> The trick here is that the original VG must be inactive before you do
> the split.  AFAIK, the only way you can do that with your stuff now is
> to boot off the rescue CD, let it mount the stuff, then follow the steps
> I did starting with "vgchange -a n ..."
> 
I'm not sure about that, but if the VG has to be inactive before to
split a volume from it, this is not a good LVM.

All of the activities about VG have to be online activities.

And, also in tha man page about vgsplit the inactive status is not
mentioned.

Bye
 Ambrogio