Re: [linux-lvm] Setting LVM logical volume filesystem type

[Luca Berra <bluca comedia it>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:17:47AM +0300, ajalkane wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how can I set the filesystem type for LVM2 logical volume? For some
> reason my logical volume /var, which is ext3, suddenly started to be
> detected as solaris_mirror_member (or something to that effect) which
> causes it to be unable to be automatically mounted. If I mount it
> manually specifying the filesystem type as ext3 it works. Fsck reports
> no errors.
>
> This happened just suddenly. Naturally I would like to know how it
> could corrupt like that. But it might be difficult. Right now I just
> want my system to be usable again. How can I tell LVM that it is
> indeed ext3 volume without reformatting the logical volume?

lvm has no notion of what is inside a logical volume.
i suppose blkid (which is used by mount to find the fs type got it
wrong)
check running
blkid /dev/vgXXX/lvolYYY
and
blkid -c /dev/null /dev/vgXXX/lvolYYY

L.
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