[mythtv-users] Anyone using LVM2 w/ ext3 for video storage

David myth at dgreaves.com
Sat Apr 2 07:57:04 UTC 2005


Jeff Simpson wrote:

>is there a command I need to use to tell LVM that the drive moved? I
>remember adding them in I had to add the drives by name (/dev/hdX).
>  
>
No.
When you created the lv structure you were using new, unmarked devices.
Once lvm got it's grubby little paws on the partitions/disks, it wrote a 
uuid which marks it permanently(ish).
When lvm starts up it scans all your block devices to find ones that it 
has marked.

David



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