swap not turned on at boot

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 03:03 -0500, ron wrote:
> Rick,
> 
> Thank you so much for your help. I tried your suggestion and still got
> the same error message. I decided to use the swap space on the other
> drive for now. I learned a lot about drive partitioning and logical
> volumes from this.
> 
> [root at coresix archive]# /usr/sbin/pvcreate --uuid
> "ZLNZwN-beD3-SPWN-gm9f-t2hA-K8op-q1qs0K" --restorefile
> /etc/lvm/archive/sys_vg_00002.vg /dev/sdb2
> File descriptor 11 left open
> File descriptor 12 left open
> File descriptor 13 left open
>   Incorrect metadata area header checksum
>   /etc/lvm/archive/sys_vg_00002.vg: stat failed: No such file or directory
>   Couldn't read volume group metadata.
>   Unable to read volume group from /etc/lvm/archive/sys_vg_00002.vg

Uh, that filename used in the pvreate should be the same as the one
you got the PV data and such from, not the same name as I used in my
example.  On a standard LVM install, it'd be

	/etc/lvm/archive/VolGroup00_XXXXX.vg

> 
> -ron-
> 
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