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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Help to mount ext3 boot partiton which reports it's
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On 6/17/2011 11:59 AM, Lee Gold wrote:
> In my opinion LVM2 should of flagged me when it went about changing my
> config - which it did - the boot partition's location and spec could not

/It/ did not do anything.  /You/ ran pvcreate on the wrong partition, 
probably because when you connected the second disk, it became sda 
instead of sdb as you probably expected, and you ran pvcreate /dev/sdb1, 
which was your boot partition.