From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5NGIDLw001863 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:18:13 -0400 Received: from mailgw1.fnal.gov (mailgw1.fnal.gov [131.225.111.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5NGIBcQ007994 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:18:12 -0400 Received: from mailav1.fnal.gov (mailav1.fnal.gov [131.225.111.18]) by mailgw1.fnal.gov (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.06 (built Mar 28 2005)) with SMTP id <0J1B00GZUMKZ0V@mailgw1.fnal.gov> for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:18:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mailgw2.fnal.gov ([131.225.111.12]) by mailav1.fnal.gov (SAVSMTP 3.1.7.47) with SMTP id M2006062311181122860 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:18:11 -0500 Received: from conversion-daemon.mailgw2.fnal.gov by mailgw2.fnal.gov (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.06 (built Mar 28 2005)) id <0J1B00K01MIXFR@mailgw2.fnal.gov> (original mail from jdiamond@fnal.gov) for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:18:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (adee94445.fnal.gov [131.225.129.110]) by mailgw2.fnal.gov (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.06 (built Mar 28 2005)) with ESMTPSA id <0J1B0004NMMBJQ@mailgw2.fnal.gov> for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:18:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:18:11 -0500 From: John Diamond Message-id: <449C1443.9000605@fnal.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: [linux-lvm] Rescuing a VG from a busted system Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Hi, I'm kind of a LVM newbie, so please bear with me on this question. I had a Fedora Core 3 box die on me last night. The disk survived, and it has a VG on it called VolumeGroup00 (default for FC installs, I believe). I'm not really interested in reusing the disk, I just want to get some of my data (2 weeks of coding!) off of it, so I put the disk into a FC 5 box as hdb and booted up, but it doesn't recognize the volume on hdb. I did some research, and the reason for this seems to be that since the VG on hda is also named VolumeGroup00, it will not recognize the VolumeGroup00 on hdb. So my question is, what's my best approach for getting at the data on hdb? Is there a way that I can rename the VG on hdb, or is there an even better approach? Thanks for your time, John -- John Diamond Fermi National Accelerator Lab Accelerator Division, EE/Support Department 630-840-4988 - jdiamond@fnal.gov "If it can't be done in Emacs, it's not worth doing"