From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LlPFi-0004UE-Db for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:06:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8CFC2E05D6; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:06:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F61E05D6 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:06:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A2D52FA50C for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:06:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:06:16 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: PyrI3fNT9LKy2C1K0B/xammo63Jw+FONv0JAMOlB+CCj 1237734376 Received: from [192.168.31.10] (cpe-024-211-156-075.nc.res.rr.com [24.211.156.75]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0C75F3ACBD for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:06:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition... From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200903221353.43727.francesco.talamona@know.eu> References: <49C52C76.4030609@gmail.com> <200903220736.32002.francesco.talamona@know.eu> <1237720372.13807.2.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <200903221353.43727.francesco.talamona@know.eu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:06:15 -0400 Message-Id: <1237734375.15188.24.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0302f39b-514c-4b16-80d6-ee403bdb1d82 X-Archives-Hash: 1b0dcb778c008b7465055401414f3cf4 On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 13:53 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > You mean the 1 extra command that's needed to assemble a VG? > > It wasn't that easy, that's what I did in the end: > 1) vgchange -a n > 2) vgexport -a > 3) vgimport -a > 4) vgscan --mknodes > 5) vgchange -a y #5 is all I've ever had to do. The first 3 look pointless to me. #5 takes care of #4 for you. > Maybe 4) and 5) alone would do the trick... I don't remember which > livecd I used then, except for the fact that I had to reboot > with "dolvm2" option; now I have a tested "first aid kit" with notes > on > paper (all my notes were on those discs at the time) with well known > and proven liveCDs. I've never had to dolvm2 either. I'm guessing that's a Gentoo live cd thing. I rarely use the Gentoo live cds because they always seem out of date (although I understand they build daily snapshots now).