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From: "Allan Wolfe" <allan.wolfe@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] disk recovery - mounting external USB lvm2 volume
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:41:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca3f4a240707171841w626b2a41o7cc07d14111ebea9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070717031215.GB24644@bdmcc-us.com>

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Yes.  The grub.conf does refer to the logical volume.  I also see
/etc/blkid/blkid.tab which looks like it is built at boot time (kudzu?).

Thanks for the advise.  Before doing anything, I'll back up what is
sacred;-)

On 7/16/07, Brian McCullough <bdmc@bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:28:01PM -0500, Allan Wolfe wrote:
> > Thanks Brian.  This is starting to make sense.  The Fedora 7 and the old
> FC6
> > both are named the defaults.  Here is the result from the vgchange:
> >
> > $ sudo vgchange -a y
> >  2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
> >  2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
> >
> > Digging around in the man pages, it looks to me as though I will need to
> > rename the active/current volume using vgrename command, change the
> > /etc/fstab to the new name and then follow on with mounting the old
> volume
> > using the old default volume.
> >
> > Am I on the right track?  Thanks for your help.
>
> Yes, you are.  However, I recommend that you plan every step carefully,
> so that you don't wind up with an unbootable system.  Make sure that you
> have renamed the "local" LVM volumes, the fstab entries and anything
> that might depend on those names. ( some things can break, but you had
> better make sure that you can boot -- by the way, what do the entries in
> grub.conf refer to? )
>
>
>
> Brian
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-18  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-16  1:30 [linux-lvm] disk recovery - mounting external USB lvm2 volume Allan Wolfe
2007-07-16  1:40 ` Brian McCullough
2007-07-17  2:28   ` Allan Wolfe
2007-07-17  3:12     ` Brian McCullough
2007-07-18  1:41       ` Allan Wolfe [this message]
2007-07-18 10:30         ` Bryn M. Reeves
2007-07-31 14:29           ` Allan Wolfe

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