[linux-lvm] Re: Mounting a Partition Image of LM partition?

[linux-lvm] Re: Mounting a Partition Image of LM partition?

[Rich Graves]

Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> with info. I have a compressed disk image of the 250G drive, and also have 
> a compressed partition image of the partitions with the LVM partition. I
> was able to copy this partition to my home machine taking about 11 hours,
> and was able to uncompress the lzop image. I was then able to use losetup 
> /dev/loop0 to load the image, and pvscan then shows it, but it has the
> same name  as the regular LVM volumne on the machine. 

Well, that's relatively easy to fix. Pick a unique name for your home
system's volume group; change fstab and grub.conf; mkinitrd; boot from a
rescue CD; vgrename; cross your fingers; reboot. Then you ought to be able
to finish the job you started.

...and don't accept the default VolumeGroup00 name again.
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