Import VG - won't autostart

Alan

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Jan 22, 2003, 3:13:24 PM1/22/03

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Hi,

I'm not that well up on this old AIX business - can someone give me a
pointer ?

Had to do a clean install of 4.3.3 - I had another data disk that I imported
the volume group from. All fine so far. Then I varyonvg the secong group and
after checking the file system, it mounted fine no problem. I thought that
was it and checked the new file system was in /etc/filesystems and that it
had a mount=automatic, which it does.

Now after a reboot, the new file system never mounts itself. Each time I
have to manually varyonvg the imported volume and then it manually mounts
fine. When I do a lsvg on the volume it says:

AUTO ON: yes
Auto-Concurrent: Enabled

What is the problem here - any ideas ?

Thanks for your time - nothing I hate more than getting people to do my work
for me but I'm stuck.

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Jan 22, 2003, 4:57:42 PM1/22/03

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"Alan" <capel...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| Hi,
|
| I'm not that well up on this old AIX business - can someone give me a
| pointer ?
|
| Had to do a clean install of 4.3.3 - I had another data disk that I imported
| the volume group from. All fine so far. Then I varyonvg the secong group and
| after checking the file system, it mounted fine no problem. I thought that
| was it and checked the new file system was in /etc/filesystems and that it
| had a mount=automatic, which it does.

You want "mount = true"
Automatic is kind of a dummy setting used for system filesystems that are mounted
by the start up procedure /sbin/rc.boot and are done 'automagically' whether you
want
it or not.
norm

Giovanni AMARU

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Jan 23, 2003, 3:24:09 AM1/23/03

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Hi
to valdate the automontage of the VG:
#chvg -ay VG
Good luck.

Giovanni
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zonglf

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Jan 24, 2003, 3:27:34 PM1/24/03

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Giovanni AMARU <NOgama...@caramail.com> wrote in message news:<2003123-9...@foorum.com>...

> Hi
> to valdate the automontage of the VG:
> #chvg -ay VG
> Good luck.
>
> Giovanni

can you post the boot log file?
/var/adm/ras/bootlog >>>>>>default.

J. Shieh

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Jan 24, 2003, 6:34:02 PM1/24/03

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In article <b0mu15$jdn$1...@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>,
"Alan" <capel...@hotmail.com> wrote:

There is an off chance that when you ran importvg, the LVM commands
populated the mount point within /etc/filesytems in such an order where
needed mount points aren't available at boot time, but they are
available after booting up all the way (this is fairly non-common, so
don't get your hopes up). What I would do is first verify that the
volume group is varied on after a reboot. I read that you run varyonvg
on the second volume group and then mount by hand. LVM allows you to
varyonvg a volume group that's already varied on, with no squawking.
I *think* the command to list varied on volume groups is: "lsvg -o"
(it's been a while for me). If the volume group is already varied on,
then my weak theory (that the mount stanza order within
/etc/filesystems) may have some validity. You can then "vi"
/etc/filesystems and re-arrange mount points to make sense.

anyway, for what that's worth.

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