On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 00:12 +0200, Joel Uckelman wrote: > Thus spake Joel Uckelman: > > Thus spake Jeff Vian: > > > > > > The lv is not active. > > > Have you tried to activate it? > > > See the listing in man lvs for the identifying the state, and in man > > > lvchange for how to activate it. > > > Something like "lvchange -a y LogVol01" should make it active so you > > > can then use commands such as mkswap and mount with it. snip > > > > > I assume the volume group is activated. > > > > Yes, the volume group is activated. > > Finally the cause of my problem dawned on me: The two drives in my > software RAID are not exactly the same size (despite being the same > "model"). I created the volume group on the drive which is about 1GB > larger, and then put the two drives together as a software RAID. > Thus, my swap partition, which was coincindentally also 1GB, "fell off > the end" of the volume group when creating the RAID chopped off the > last 1GB of it. (Honestly, I'm a bit surprised that this didn't > result in disastrous data loss. Must be my lucky day.) > > I solved this by: > > 1. Using resize2fs to reduce the size of the filesystem in one of my > logical volumes by 1GB. > > 2. Shrinking the logical volume by 1GB. > > 3. Creating another logical volume for my swap partition. > glad you figured it out. :-)
