Restart The Server; Verify That Evms Manages The Boot, Swap, And Root Partitions - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP3 - STORAGE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 2-23-2010 Administration Manual

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mkinitrd, see
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1 At a terminal console prompt, enter the EVMS Ncurses command as the
equivalent:
evmsn
2 Review the output to verify that EVMS shows only the
EVMS.
You should see the following devices mounted (with your own partition names, of course) for
these two partitions:
/dev/evms/sda1
/dev/evms/sda2
3 At a terminal console prompt, enter the following to update the
evms
/sbin/mkinitrd -f evms
This does not take effect until you restart the server.
4 Continue with

2.2.6 Restart the Server

1 Restart the server to apply the post-install configuration settings.
When your system restarts, the kernel loads the
activate your volumes and mount your root file system. Then your boot scripts run the EVMS
tools once more to make sure your
your volumes. Finally, the remaining EVMS volumes are mounted as specified in your
fstab
2 Continue with
Partitions," on page
2.2.7 Verify that EVMS Manages the Boot, Swap, and Root
Partitions
1 At a terminal prompt, enter the EVMS Ncurses command as the
evmsn
2 Review the output to verify that EVMS shows the
in EVMS.
You should see the following devices mounted (with your own partition names, of course)
under the
/dev/evms/sda1
/dev/evms/sda2
/dev/evms/sda3
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mkinitrd
Recommended Updates for mkinitrd (http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/
path information for the root (
Section 2.2.6, "Restart the Server," on page
file. Everything else on your system should start up as you would normally expect.
Section 2.2.7, "Verify that EVMS Manages the Boot, Swap, and Root
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directory:
/dev/evms
might resolve the need to do this task. For the latest version of
at the Novell Technical Support Center.
/boot
) partition:
/
init-ramdisk
directory correctly reflects the current state of
/dev/evms/
,
/boot
user or
root
and partitions as active in
swap
image with the
initrd
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, which runs the EVMS tools to
user or equivalent:
root
, and root ( ) partitions as active
swap /
/dev/
/etc/