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

[David Morrison]

Poul Petersen wrote:

>>I wanted to create a mount point that I could easily add capacity to
>>later as I needed.  To do this I created an LVM2 volume (currently
>>caontaining only one pv) and formatted ext3 over this.  When I went to
>>boot the machine up the next day it was unable to mount the volume or
>>even filecheck it.  I'm wondering if I rebuild this volume will this
>>become a common occurance?  If so is there anyone who's found a more
>>reliable solution?
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>	Yup no problems here. Did you make a logical volume in the
>volume group? From your description it almost sounds like your formatted
>the physical volume.
>
>	The other possibility is that your initrd doesn't contain LVM
>drivers, so when you rebooted your system it didn't load LVM. Did you
>try loading the dm_mod and running vgscan? Did you add the filesystem
>to /etc/fstab? What was the error when you tried to mount the
>logical volume?
>
>-poul
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I have the same setup but I'm using XFS on two 250GB disks instead. I
would check the kernel for both the LVM  and EXT drivers. Also make sure
it's listed in your fstsab :)

Dave