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 at triad.rr.com> > > > ><snip> > > > 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 -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263