Comments on: LVM/Ubuntu/PowerPC

By: Sergey Udaltsov

Sergey Udaltsov — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:18:09 +0000

dsoul: thanks for the link. The information is interesting. Did you file a bug in launchpad?

By: dsoul

dsoul — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:29:46 +0000

have similar problem with lvm,
solution is to create /var/run and /var/lock dirs on root filesystem http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/UbuntuVarRun

By: Sergey Udaltsov

Sergey Udaltsov — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:41:33 +0000

Jerome: well, I am not ready yet to put entire root to LVM. As a start, I decided to put just home and var (may be usr as well). And got that disappointment

Ryan: I even can temporary umount /var in single-user mode, in order to create those dirs, as well as /var/run/network etc. But I do not like that hack, because the temporary files created by init might be used by someone later… In a word, that solution is too hackish. For a moment, I’ll just wait for the fix.

By: Ryan Lovett

Ryan Lovett — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:29:33 +0000

Maybe you could try

apt-get install e2tools
e2mkdir /dev/partition-that-has-your-root-fs:/var/run
e2mkdir /dev/partition-that-has-your-root-fs:/var/lock

e.g. ‘e2mkdir /dev/sda1:/var/run’

This way you would have a /var/run and /var/lock before your real /var was mounted. Of course, when that happens the stuff Ubuntu put there will be hidden underneath.

By: Jerome

Jerome — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:52:25 +0000

I’m not sure about /var on LVM, but putting your entire / on LVM works just fine on Ubuntu. I think your explanation of the varrun/lock being tried first is reasonable… and we should probably fix it.