Bug#588416: lvm2: the man page for vgscan and vgchange do not state that exported volumes must first be imported

[david b]

Package: lvm2
Version: the man page for vgchange and vgscan fail to state exported drives must be imported before activated
Severity: normal

The man page for vgscan and vgchange do not state that exported volumes must first be imported using vgimport.
The rather cryptic message that "$volume .. exported" is not mentioned in the man page of vgchange or vgscan.
Therefore, users may wrongly think they have lost access to an lvm volume.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash