Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-24 Thread Bill Crawford
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 17:31:11 Eric wrote: > At 10:30 AM 9/23/2008, Stuart Sears wrote: > >Alternatively, remove one disk, boot F9 (or FC5, really doesn't matter > >which!) with a rescue disc and rename the volumegroup. > > > >vgrename /dev/VolGroup00 /dev/VolGroup-F9 (or something like that

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-23 Thread Eric
At 10:30 AM 9/23/2008, Stuart Sears wrote: > Alternatively, remove one disk, boot F9 (or FC5, really doesn't matter which!) with a rescue disc and rename the volumegroup. vgrename /dev/VolGroup00 /dev/VolGroup-F9 (or something like that - man vgrename). (although in rescue mode, this would

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-23 Thread Stuart Sears
Gene Poole wrote: > > I'm not 100% sure that this will work, however it shouldn't hurt either... > > As root: > > mkdir /oldboot > mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 /oldboot > > The file systems should now be available off of /oldboot > > If you want to make it available and moun

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-23 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:35:21AM -0400, Eric wrote: > At 08:40 PM 9/22/2008, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > >The LVM system uses UUIDs (which are almost guaranteed to be unique) to > >label each LVM PV, VG, and LV. I believe you can use "vgscan" to > >display them, and then reference the UUID

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-23 Thread Gene Poole
I'm not 100% sure that this will work, however it shouldn't hurt either... As root: mkdir /oldboot mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 /oldboot The file systems should now be available off of /oldboot If you want to make it available and mounted at boot time, update your fstab Hop

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-22 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Eric wrote: > If I then go and physically reconnect the second drive (the old FC5 > drive), there is no lvm command that will allow me to see both drives > AND see their UIDs... the only command that will let me see the UID is > vgscan, and that one will only see t

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-22 Thread Eric
At 08:40 PM 9/22/2008, Paul W. Frields wrote: > The LVM system uses UUIDs (which are almost guaranteed to be unique) to label each LVM PV, VG, and LV. I believe you can use "vgscan" to display them, and then reference the UUID of the VG in question when you run "vgrename" to rename it to s

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-22 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 20:27 -0400, Eric wrote: > At 07:54 PM 9/22/2008, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > > >You can try to use Slax Linux Live CD(get the latest slax608rc6.iso. > > > >http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=17340 > > > >or you can also use: > > > >http://forums.fedora

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-22 Thread Eric
At 07:54 PM 9/22/2008, Antonio Olivares wrote: > You can try to use Slax Linux Live CD(get the latest slax608rc6.iso. http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=17340 or you can also use: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=707874 to find out answers! < Good even

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-22 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Mon, 9/22/08, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem) > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 1:41 PM > At 12:45 PM 9/22/2008, Chris Tyler wrote: > >

How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-22 Thread Eric
At 12:45 PM 9/22/2008, Chris Tyler wrote: > The specific commands you need are vgscan and vgchange; access to the logical volume will be through /dev/mapper/yourVGname-yourLVname (or /dev/yourVGname/yourLVname) and not /dev/sdb* (which is the raw partition containing a PV). (Although the co