[linux-lvm] Converting my Root file system to LVM [lastquestion]

[Steve Wray]

> From: linux-lvm-admin at sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin at sistina.com]On
> Behalf Of Rupert Heesom
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> What I'm finding now is that when I'm shutting the PC down, vgchange is
> complaining that it can't close the VG down because there's an active
> partition (something like that).  I've had a look at the halt script,
> and I can't figure out exactly how umounting the LV & deactivating the
> VG would work.
> 
> I put a tentative line right above the "/sbin/vgchange -an" saying
> "umount /dev/vg/root".   However, if I'm unmounting root BEFORE
> deactivating the VG, then the system won't find the /sbin/vgchange util
> will it?  
> 
> I do have  /boot/initrd-lvm-2.4.3.gz which is used at boot time.  This
> ramdisk does have /sbin/vgchange in it (which you probably know).  If
> root is unmounted when /sbin/vgchange is called, will the system use the
> ramdisk?   If so, how does it know to use it?   (I'm kinda new to
> figuring out how ramdisks work, I just follow instructions and they
> work!)

Hey thats a good point... maybe a halt-time ramdisk?
:)


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