Solved mount: special device \/dev\/VolGroup00\/LogVol00 does not exist<\/p>\n
There are times when using LVM you might come accross the error while mounting an LVM partition. The error that we are discussing here is mount: special device \/dev\/VolGroup00\/LogVol00 does not exist.<\/p>\n
[root@rmohan ~]# mount \/dev\/VolGroup00\/LogVol00 \/media\/data<\/p>\n
Output:<\/p>\n
mount: special device \/dev\/VolGroup00\/LogVol00 does not exist<\/p>\n
Maybe in your case the VolumeGroup name would be different, so can be the LogicalVolume name.<\/p>\n
Solved mount: special device \/dev\/VolGroup00\/LogVol00 does not exist<\/p>\n
In order to fix this problem I ran the standard display commands (pvdisplay, vgdisplay, lvdisplay) under LVM. However, everything looked good.<\/p>\n
I then ran lvscan which provided some interesting results.<\/p>\n
[root@rmohan ~]# lvscan<\/p>\n
Output:<\/p>\n
inactive\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ‘\/dev\/VolGroup00\/LogVol00’ [5.40 TB] inherit<\/p>\n
So it looks like the Volume Group and the Logical Volume is in INACTIVE state for the kernel.<\/p>\n
We will have to enable the Volume Group for Kernel to be able to mount it.<\/p>\n
The following is how we can enable a Volume Group.<\/p>\n
[root@rmohan ~]# vgchange -ay VolGroup00<\/p>\n
Where,<\/p>\n
-a Controls the availability or unavailability of the logical volumes. It makes the volume available or unavailable to the kernel.<\/p>\n
Output:<\/p>\n
1 logical volume(s) in volume group “VolGroup00” now active<\/p>\n
Verify the Volumes again using lvscan<\/p>\n
[root@rmohan ~]# lvscan<\/p>\n
Output:<\/p>\n
ACTIVE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ‘\/dev\/VolGroup00\/LogVol00’ [5.40 TB] inherit<\/p>\n
Kernel should now be able to mount the Logical Volume.<\/p>\n
[root@rmohan ~]# mount \/dev\/VolGroup00\/LogVol00 \/media\/data<\/p>\n
Verify the mounts using mount or df<\/p>\n
[root@rmohan ~]# mount<\/p>\n
Solved mount: special device \/dev\/VolGroup00\/LogVol00 does not exist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Solved mount: special device \/dev\/VolGroup00\/LogVol00 does not exist<\/p>\n
There are times when using LVM you might come accross the error while mounting an LVM partition. The error that we are discussing here is mount: special device \/dev\/VolGroup00\/LogVol00 does not exist.<\/p>\n
[root@rmohan ~]# mount \/dev\/VolGroup00\/LogVol00 \/media\/data<\/p>\n
Output:<\/p>\n
mount: special device \/dev\/VolGroup00\/LogVol00 does not exist<\/p>\n
Maybe in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4688,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions\/4688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}