On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 16:45 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:09:59AM -0500, John Bray wrote: > > i did a clean install on a new disk for fc4. > > i need to mount my old fc3 disk and get some of the data off. > > > but both, of course, are marked VolGroup00. and because of this, i > > can't mount hdb2. > > > what am i missing here? how do i handle this? > > Edit lvm.conf to hide the old disk. [with a filters line] > > Then you can add the disk to the machine and lvm will ignore it. > > Create a temporary 'lvm' directory somewhere else and copy > lvm.conf into it and reverse the filter so it *only* looks > at your old disk. > > Set environment variable LVM_SYSTEM_DIR to your temp dir. > and run 'vgrename' to change the name of the VG. > > Then get rid of the environ var & the temp dir and reset > the filter in lvm.conf so it sees everything again. > > Alasdair thanks Alasdair! your information is VERY much appreciated! john
