Bug 101443 – lvmcreate_initrd

Bug 101443 - lvmcreate_initrd

Summary:	lvmcreate_initrd

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	lvm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Heinz Mauelshagen
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2003-07-31 21:54 EDT by Eric Moret
Modified:	2007-03-27 00:08 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2005-07-07 09:38:52 EDT
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Fix surious kernel dependencies messages (415 bytes, patch) 2003-10-19 08:10 EDT, Francois-Xavier 'FiX' KOWALSKI	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Eric Moret 2003-07-31 21:54:56 EDT

Description of problem:
Running stock RH 2.4.20-19.9smp kernel on an smp machine and migrating a root 
partition to lvm.  when running lvmcreate_initrd, I get error no space left on 
device when cpio files from /dev. To fix the issue I had to manually edit 
the /sbin/lvmcreate_initrd script, uncomment line INITRDSIZE= and type 8000. 
Obviously the script does not estimate the size of the ramdisk properly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
lvm-1.0.3-12

How reproducible:
Every time

Comment 1 Stephen Tweedie 2003-08-04 08:16:05 EDT

The Red Hat mkinitrd should deal with LVM properly anyway; does the problem
persist if you use that instead?

Comment 2 Francois-Xavier 'FiX' KOWALSKI 2003-10-19 08:10:41 EDT

Created attachment 95295 [details]
Fix surious kernel dependencies messages

despite its man page, lvmcreate_initrd is unable to regenerate module
dependencies for a non-running kernel.

Comment 3 Francois-Xavier 'FiX' KOWALSKI 2003-10-19 08:11:14 EDT

plain mkinitrd fixes the issue, provided the bug below is also fixed (patch
enclosed).

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107490>

Also not that lvmcreate_mkinitrd -- appart from its unability to create an
initrd -- also issues a lot of suprious messages.  Patch enclosed in this PR
fixes the spurious messages.

IMO, lvmcreate_initrd should simply no longer be delivered & its man-page should
reference mkinitrd, that does the proper job.

Comment 4 Stephen Tweedie 2004-03-11 05:46:30 EST

Reassigning documentation/packaging suggestion.

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