On Saturday 14 February 2009 10:00:06 [email protected] wrote: > Computer A, an old computer, was running Fedora 9. It had two hard > drives. Unawares, when I installed Fedora 9, I set things up using > Logical Volume Management. > > Computer A will no longer boot up. I suspect it has something to do with > the fact that the fan over the CPU doesn't run. > > I got computer B, another old computer, going, running Ubuntu 8.10. It > has a single hard drive and no facility to add a second. > > I hoped to be able to get data off the two old hard drives, in > particular, photographs. I got a gadget that allowed me to plug an IDE > drive into a USB port. I removed one of the old drives from computer A > and attached it to computer B via the gadget. > > When I run fdisk -l on computer B, I'm told that the attached drive is > sdb1. > > However, I can't mount sdb1. When I try, I get the message "unknown > filesystem type 'LVM2_member'". > > Does that mean that there's no way for me to get the data from computer > A's drives to computer B? > > Thanks for reading this.
Leslie, being burnt by the absolute bizareness of some Dells I say this oh so softly ... a) Don't be silly b) Connect both A drives on an IDE cable, one as master one as slave if you had not already configured them so to (presumably) the single port on B c) Put them on the table or on a book, whatever. If you don't have 2 power cables, use the power supply from A Turn on and off both supplies at the same time (but don't be tragically exact) Now 50% chance B will boot from the A disks, if not use your favorite boot disk. To put this in perspective this is a 1 hour task for me Now the sage words: Until you can use your stats math to show that you need 20 (odd) bods in a room before 2 share a birthday, accept LVM is silly !!! Play with it, use it as appropriate, but do not rely on it !!! If the mechanical drudgery is too much heed Marys words about backups and never use LVM. Go away older wiser and sadder. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
