Red Hat GLOBAL FILE SYSTEM 5.0, Administrator'S Manual

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1. Troubleshooting Diagnostics ..........................................................................69
2. Displaying Information on Failed Devices .......................................................69
3. Recovering from LVM Mirror Failure ...............................................................71
4. Recovering Physical Volume Metadata ...........................................................74
5. Replacing a Missing Physical Volume ............................................................76
6. Removing Lost Physical Volumes from a Volume Group ..................................76
7. Insufficient Free Extents for a Logical Volume .................................................76
7. LVM Administration with the LVM GUI ....................................................................79
A. The Device Mapper ..............................................................................................81
B. The LVM Configuration Files .................................................................................83
1. The LVM Configuration Files ..........................................................................83
2. Sample lvm.conf File .....................................................................................83
C. LVM Object Tags ..................................................................................................91
1. Adding and Removing Object Tags ................................................................91
2. Host Tags .....................................................................................................91
3. Controlling Activation with Tags .....................................................................92
D. LVM Volume Group Metadata ...............................................................................93
1. The Physical Volume Label ...........................................................................93
2. Metadata Contents ........................................................................................94
3. Sample Metadata ..........................................................................................94
Index .......................................................................................................................97
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