[linux-lvm] How to mount volumes during boot

[Steven Lembark]

-- "Mitchell D. Miller" <mitch at mdmiller.com>

> I am running Red Hat 7.1 (with 2.4.12 kernel) and LVM 1.0.1-rc4.  I read
> the documentation on Sistina's website about boot time scripts, but the
> info there seems to deal only with getting LVM loaded at boot time.
>
> I'm still uncertain how I should configure my system so the volumes I
> have created (three of them so far) get mounted during boot.  I tried
> modifying my fstab file, but the system didn't boot right after.  It
> stopped, complaining that one of the devices couldn't be mounted.  Is
> this even the right place to configure LVM volumes to be mounted?

Make sure that a vgchange -a y is in your rc.sysinit after
the root volume is remounted rw but before the othervolumes
are fsck-ed. After that mount -a will get them on line with
the rest of things.

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