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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
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ray somcio wrote:
> I have a laptop harddrive which had FC3 installed, default filesystem
> setup using lvm.   Something happened to the drive where it doesn't
> boot anymore.  So I tried connecting it to another system running
> fedora 3.  is there a way to grab data off the laptop harddrive?

Something like;

   vgscan -a
   vgchange -ay

should make the VG active.  Then you can mount the partitions on it
(or just dd them off :) )

Sam.