From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pobox.fab.redhat.com (pobox.fab.redhat.com [10.33.63.12]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4E93Idk012560 for ; Wed, 14 May 2008 05:03:19 -0400 Received: from [10.33.0.40] (breeves.fab.redhat.com [10.33.0.40]) by pobox.fab.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4E93IBe012539 for ; Wed, 14 May 2008 05:03:18 -0400 Message-ID: <482AAAD6.2030405@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 10:03:18 +0100 From: "Bryn M. Reeves" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] recovering data from hdd References: <482A3BF1.9020607@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <482A3BF1.9020607@verizon.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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" To: LVM general discussion and development -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gerry Reno wrote: > I have a machine that suffered a lightning hit and it's toast. Even > with surge protectors it still got zapped. Anyway, I'm not going to > rebuild this machine. What I want to do is to get some information off > the hard drive. If I remember it only had one VG VolGroup00. So can I > attach this to another machine and read it? Won't the VolGroup00 > conflict with the hosts VolGroup00? How can I change it to be some > other name? See this thread: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20071122.151843.1d3b9863.en.html The steps are for cloning & renaming an existing VG but they should work fine to rename any VG that has a name conflict with something else on the system. Regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIKqrW6YSQoMYUY94RAvy9AJ9R+xj1Z0AAIG8fc3fLCR+RJLW9gQCeMwS7 AfGu0n9mO+g03n820THisKY= =9nBT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----