On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 02:35:51PM -0400, William L. Maltby enlightened us:
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 21:01 +0300, Itay wrote:
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 19:48 +0300, Itay wrote:
From: William L. Maltby BillsCentOS@triad.rr.com
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Us n00bs have to stick together here! :-)
And being n00bs, we are permitted to expound at length with guesses about what might be going on, giving the wizened cranky old pros someone to pick on and soothe their savage egos! ;-) I've not read any devel docs yet, so there may be a lot more going on.
From rom my reading, I think the device mapper (?) needs to see a partition 86 to know to look inside the partition for the meta-data (placed there by pvcreate/lvcreate?) that is used to generate the devices. My *guess* is if no type 86 is found it means no pvdata is garnered and no /dev/mapper/VolGroup* and no /dev/VolGroup* symlinks are made (or wrong ones are made or left over from elsewhere?).
Type 86 is "NTFS volume set". I think you mean 8e which is "Linux LVM".
Matt