[ale] SuSE 8.1 installer gotcha

[Dow Hurst]

Thanks Chris!  I've got to go thru the docs and so I appreciate the 
explanation.  The directory was there after the install but some part of 
the LVM creation process must have not been written.  I didn't know 
enough at the time to troubleshoot it properly.
Dow


Chris Ricker wrote:

>On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Dow Hurst wrote:
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>>/home is the mount for the logical volume.  The /etc/lvmtab looks like this:
>>system
>>
>>which is the name of the volume group.  The lvmtab.d directory contains a
>>file named "system" that I have learned yet what it is.  My first thought
>>would be that it's existence there shows that it is mounted.
>>    
>>
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>vgscan creates the lvmtab.d dir and the files w/in it. The files are
>definitions of the volume groups and are used by lvcreate later when you
>create logical volumes.  What you're seeing there is that you have a volume
>group named system
>
>later,
>chris
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