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 - man

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

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 of the VG in

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 mounted at

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 be

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

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: The specific commands you need are

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=viewparentID=17340 or you can also use: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=707874 to find out answers! Good evening,

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=viewparentID=17340 or you can also use:

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 something

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 the