On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 05:33:19PM +0100, ftm wrote: > I'm having to shift to a new laptop and have removed the drive from the old laptop. In trying to mount the root "partition" I've run into an area of ignorance - how to mount a logical volume so I can extract the data. > > Anyone have any quick pointers? > > Thanks, > > Fred Metcalf > Scan for PV's on the new system, note the vg name you need pvscan Activate the VG in question vgchange -a y VGNAME display/mount as normal vgdisplay, lvdisplay, etc. -- offset