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diederick76

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Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 157

Accessing lvm2 volumes from arch cd

Hi,

I have set up my two 80G harddisks as one lvm2 volume group with two volumes, one with my home partition and one with the rest. For the rest I figured 16G would be plenty, but it seems it isn't. So I want to add an extra 16G to it. My home partition has more than enough left.

Only thing is, after I reboot my machine using the arch installation cd, I don't know how to access my volumes to resize them. Can someone tell me how to do that? I got as far as modprobing dm-mod.

Thanks for any help,
Diederick.

drama

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From: muscatine, iowa, USA

Registered: 2009-12-07

Posts: 12

Re: Accessing lvm2 volumes from arch cd

I know this topic is a month old. But just incase you havent solved it yet try the following. modprobe dm-mod followed by vgchange -ay. Modprobe dm-mod obviously loads the module. vgchange -ay activates any volume groups/logical volumes it finds.

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