[linux-lvm] Help! Problems finding VG after reboot.

[Andreas Dilger]

Gregory McLean writes:
> I've edited around in the startup files to _not_ call vgscan at all
> and things are working for now. Though if I need to add a drive to
> the system I'm screwed.

I disagree.  I never have vgscan in my system startup, and have never
had problems.  The only time I run vgscan is by accident, or on my
rescue partition (where the VGDA info can get out of date).

Cheers, Andreas
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