[linux-lvm] lvchange problem
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Tue Jan 15 08:50:02 UTC 2002
Colin,
that was fixed recently.
LVM 1.0.1 works.
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:23:52PM +0800, Colin Coe wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I have come across a problem with lvchange. When I change the availability
> of an LV from active to inactive, and then try and change it back I get the
> error "Operation not permitted". I can only get the LV back by rebooting.
>
> A search of Google turned up something similar but there were no responses
> to that post.
>
> System details are:
> Pentium II-400
> 2 x 20GB Quantum drives
> 256MB RAM
> 2.4.14 with XFS
> lvm-tools 1.0.1rc4-2
> Gnu C 2.96
> Gnu make 3.79.1
> binutils 2.11.90.0.8
> util-linux 2.11f
> mount 2.11g
> modutils 2.4.6
> e2fsprogs 1.23
> reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j
> Linux C Library 2.2.4
> Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.2.4
> Procps 2.0.7
> Net-tools 1.60
> Console-tools 0.3.3
> Sh-utils 2.0.11
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> CC
>
>
> [root at linux-lvm root]# df -k
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/md0 2042880 1335560 707320 66% /
> /dev/md1 59328 5292 54036 9% /boot
> none 127472 0 127472 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/rootvg/bbs 60736 80 60656 1% /bbs
> /dev/rootvg/bbsdata 2026816 144 2026672 1% /bbs/data
>
> [root at linux-lvm root]# umount /bbs/data
>
> [root at linux-lvm root]# lvchange -an /dev/rootvg/bbsdata
> lvchange -- logical volume "/dev/rootvg/bbsdata" changed
> lvchange -- doing automatic backup of volume group "rootvg"
> lvchange -- no difference to old backup in "/etc/lvmconf/rootvg.conf"
>
> [root at linux-lvm root]# df -k
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/md0 2042880 1335580 707300 66% /
> /dev/md1 59328 5292 54036 9% /boot
> none 127472 0 127472 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/rootvg/bbs 60736 80 60656 1% /bbs
>
> [root at linux-lvm root]# lvchange -ay /dev/rootvg/bbsdata
> lvchange -- ERROR "Operation not permitted" couldn't open logical volume
> "/dev/rootvg/bbsdata"
>
> And the same again in verbose mode.
>
> [root at linux-lvm root]# lvchange -ay -v /dev/rootvg/bbsdata
> lvchange -- locking logical volume manager
> lvchange -- checking logical volume name
> lvchange -- checking volume group existence
> lvchange -- checking for active volume group "rootvg"
> lvchange -- reading volume group data of "rootvg" from disk(s)
> lvchange -- checking consistency of "rootvg"
> lvchange -- checking logical volume "/dev/rootvg/bbsdata" existence
> lvchange -- getting index of logical volume "/dev/rootvg/bbsdata" in volume
> group "rootvg"
> lvchange -- getting status of "/dev/rootvg/bbsdata" from VGDA in kernel
> lvchange -- changing logical volume "/dev/rootvg/bbsdata" in VGDA of kernel
> lvchange -- ERROR "Operation not permitted" couldn't open logical volume
> "/dev/rootvg/bbsdata"
>
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