[mythtv-users] What is the fsck equivalent for LVM?

Jim Reith reith at racores.com
Thu Sep 8 18:19:06 UTC 2005


At 02:12 PM 9/8/2005, you wrote:
>On 08 Sep 2005 10:37:20 -0700, Jim Reith <reith at racores.com> wrote:
> > I have a three disk LVM currently on a crashed system. I would like to
> > verify it. What is the equivalent to fsck?
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>As long as your volume group and logical volume information is intact
>and you can activate your volume group, then the standard fsck for the
>filesystem you have should work.
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>If your VG or LVOL is bad, I think you would be pretty much out of
>luck.  You could try vgscan possibly.

Well, my root partition is toast so someone recommended I do an Update
Install (KnoppMyth) and then follow the LVM Upgrade instructions (which i
think say to use vgscan after editing the fstab)





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