Frank Cox 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:
[r...@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 ]
[r...@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....
I have read this thread and I wish I had seen something like it two
years ago. I had upgraded a system that used LVM and replaced two
drives to increase the total available space. It turned out that I had
forgotten to backup a directory. To late and rushing.
I wanted to install the removed drive to see if the directory was on
that drive but it was part of the old group (generic name creation) and
strange and wonderful problems started to crop up. I never did get the
drive mounted back then.
There needs to be a firm way of changing and editing LVM characteristics
in these situations.
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Robin Laing
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