--I dunno if that alone will work; I think the /dev files have to be created / re-created somehow. You could try using mc to copy the /dev files for lvm from MDK over to Knoppix, and then do the cmds.

--Knoppix mounts individual partitions r/o, not entire drives... If you run the lvm cmds manually, it should mount the lvm drives r/w. As far as /etc/lvmtab goes, I dunno if it would be better just to do a HD install rather than trying everything from CD.

--Best of luck tho.

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Quote Originally Posted by sireasoning
lvm is already part of the distribution (at least it appears to be). Unfortunately it is not setup to recognize lvm drives automatically at bootup so I was wondering if anyone had worked with knoppix and lvm before.

I might just init 2 then try vgscan && vgchange -a y
which is how it is started in the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script in Mandrake 8.2
However in the rc.sysinit script it is run before the swapfile is activated and I fear that the mounted drive (read-only) which contains the lvm partition and the mounted (read-only) drive that contains /etc/lvmtab may not be able to effectively talk to each other.

has anyone gotten their lvm partitions up in knoppix?