LVM commands not found
 

Hi all,

I am trying to work around LVM commands in CENTOS 5.3.But when i type pvdisplay vgdisplay or pvdisplay none of the commands are working.i installed lvm2 package also but still no result in favour.i also installed gui utility.Typing system-config-lvm goes to a window which displays my harddisk partition but i am not able to do anything.Have i missed anything.Does lvm requires any package.Please help me on this.Thanks in advance

This may be a silly question, but are you trying to run the lvm commands as root?
If not, you need to.

You need root privileges to run lvm commands. Regarding the lvm dependencies, if you have installed it through yum, it should have taken care of them automatically. Anyway, here is a list from my CentOS box:

Thanks for the reply

I run the command what you have specified and the result is the same

[root@bugs guest]# yum deplist lvm2 | grep provider | sort -u
provider: bash.i386 3.2-24.el5
provider: device-mapper-event.i386 1.02.28-2.el5
provider: device-mapper.i386 1.02.28-2.el5
provider: glibc.i386 2.5-34
provider: glibc.i686 2.5-34
provider: libselinux.i386 1.33.4-5.1.el5
provider: libsepol.i386 1.15.2-1.el5
provider: lvm2.i386 2.02.40-6.el5
provider: ncurses.i386 5.5-24.20060715
provider: readline.i386 5.1-1.1

[root@bugs guest]# which pvdisplay
/usr/bin/which: no pvdisplay in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/guest/bin)

[root@bugs guest]# which lvdisplay
/usr/bin/which: no lvdisplay in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/guest/bin)

[root@bugs guest]# pvdisplay
bash: pvdisplay: command not found

I am trying as root only.Any ideas.

I don't see /sbin in your search path.
I think that is where you will find the LVM utilities ...

-Tram

This is not the root's PATH. Have you used
to login as root? If you omit the - sign, the environment of the current user is preserved.

Edit: Sorry for redundancy, I didn't see the post from tequilatram!

Problem got solved..Thank you very much.Problem is i typed su instead of su -....Thanks a lot

Thanks for the reply .