[linux-lvm] How to best use LVM?
Andres Salomon
dilinger at mp3revolution.net
Wed Aug 14 14:39:02 UTC 2002
The debian packages are pretty out of date (since 2.4.19 took _forever_),
I'll be uploading new ones tonight.
/proc/misc should definitely not be empty; is the device mapper driver
loaded in the kernel? (lsmod |grep dm, if it's compiled as a module).
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 02:47:28PM -0400, pll+lvm at lanminds.com wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:45:47 BST
> Joe Thornber said:
>
> >device-mapper is the kernel driver used by LVM2, there should be a
> >debian package for this too.
>
> I've tried that, and even installing the device-mapper from sources.
>
> For some reason the devmap_mknod.sh script is unable to create the
> /dev/device_mapper/control file. It appears that the problem is an
> inability to find the minor number from /proc/misc, which happens to
> be empty.
>
> Did I forget to configure something in my kernel which should be
> appearing in my /proc/misc file?
>
> Thanks,
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> Seeya,
> Paul
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