Aldo Foot venit, vidit, dixit 17.03.2009 18:45: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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 > __ > > Get info on the Volume Group (change 00 to 01 for the other volume) > vgdisplay -v VolGroup00 > > Look at the Physical Volumes list; the hard drive partitions > are shown individually. That's how you identify with hard > drive or partition belongs to what Volume Group. > Somewhere in the Logical Volume info it will say: > "LV Status available" > > To fix inconsistencies, check the filesystem > e2fsck -fvy /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > > To format (make sure to pick the correct one) > mkfs.ext3 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > > mount as any other filesystem > mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/mountpoint > > Bottom line is you can use /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 as you > would any hard drive device name such as /dev/hda1. > > HTH, > ~af > The problems is he has multiple groups with the same name. This happens as soon as you go with anaconda's defaults twice... Michael -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
