Non vg00 volume groups are not being activated upon boot up

[EJ Stremler]

Everytime we re-boot this particular system, the non-vg00 volume groups are not being activated. When the system comes up to multi-user, we have to do the vgchange -a y manually, then mount the file systems associated to these volume groups. Is there any config file that I can check? What could possibly be causing this? The system is an rp3410 running 11.11...

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Ed:

Look at your 'etc/lvmrc' file. You want:

AUTO_VG_ACTIVATE=1

...to automatically activate all volume groups in a non-MC/ServiceGuard environment.

Regards!

...JRF...

[EJ Stremler]

James - Thank you for the answer, I figured it was something like this... I went in and fixed it right away.. thnx again, Ed...

[EJ Stremler]

Closing thread, James gave me the answer I was looking for..

[Thomas J. Harrold]

Ed,

Be sure that this system is (or was) not part of a cluster.

In a cluster, you NEED to prevent filesystems from being activated on system startup.

run "cmviewcl" and see if you see any remnants of a cluster.

If so, re-open this thread, and we can discuss your options.

-tjh