Robert L Cochran wrote:
On my shiny new FC4 system, mount reports this device to be mounted on
root "/":
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
Too late for this information to help you and you seem to already
realize this but hopefully it will help someone in the future.
The installer probably should mention that you should try to rename the
volume group to something uniq during installation to reduce the chances
of volume group name conflicts in the future. I forgot about this
myself and had to rename one of them when I needed to access the old
system. Only the volume group needs to be renamed(logical volume names
will not conflict).
I make sure to name my volume groups with the system name of the machine
and then a unique number afterwards that I increment for any new volume
groups that I ever create. I also name the logical volumes with where I
plan to mount them. It makes recovery so much easier when you try and
access the volume group under another installation.
Example:
My system name is pulsar. I have 2 drives. One is an older drive that
has an old volume group called pulsar00. The second drive is from a
newer install of Fedora that has a volume group of pulsar01.
List of my partitions:
/dev/mapper/pulsar01-root mounted as /
/dev/hda1 mounted as /boot
/dev/mapper/pulsar01-home mounted as /home
/dev/mapper/pulsar01-tmp mounted as /tmp
/dev/mapper/pulsar01-var mounted as /var
/dev/mapper/pulsar01-swap mounted as swap
/dev/mapper/pulsar00-home mounted as /oldhome
If I ever put one of those drives in a new Linux system I will know
immediately what system I installed them on and where the partitions
were mounted.
