One of my computers died and, of course, there is un-backed-up data on there that I want to recover if I can. The hard drive seems to be in good shape so I took it out of the dead box and installed it on this computer (my main desktop machine.) I have been doing a bunch of reading about logical volumes and some of what I've found is self-contradictory, incomplete and stuff that I just don't really understand (yet.) And, as you can imagine, since this is my main desktop machine I'm not terribly anxious to just start playing around with the lvm configuration without knowing what I'm doing. Here are my findings so far: [root@mutt ~]# pvscan PV /dev/sdb2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [279.25 GB / 32.00 MB free] PV /dev/sda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [465.56 GB / 32.00 MB free] Total: 2 [744.81 GB] / in use: 2 [744.81 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] [root@mutt ~]# lvscan ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [277.28 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01' [1.94 GB] inherit It looks like the machine can see the second drive and the lvm that's on it /dev/sdb2, but it has the same VolGroup name as /dev/sda2. What I would like to do is twofold: First, and most importantly, I would like to mount it as-is so I can copy my data off of there. Second, I would like to re-format it and add it to the storage capacity that I already have on this machine. Heck, if it's still a good drive I might as well put it to use. So, how can I mount VolGroup00 that's on /dev/sdb2? The vgchange command followed by a simple mount command looks like what I want to do, but what's the syntax? As I said, I really don't want to bugger up my primary hard drive.... -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
