Can LVM1 read an LVM2 volume?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Mon Apr 10 10:42:41 UTC 2006
William Murray wrote:
> Following this discussion:
> ====================================================
> William Murray wrote:
> From: William Murray <W J Murray rl ac uk> To: fedora-list
> Subject: Can LVM1 read an LVM2 volume? Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006
> 10:37:39 +0100 Hello all,
> I would like to read my FC5 LVM disks, duak booted with
> an old
> (~RHEL3) system. If I try vgscan or pvscan on the RHEL 3 machine
> there
> is nothing visible.
> Should I (can I ) remove the lvm layer from FC5?
> Or would it be easier to graft lvm2 into RHEL 3?
> You might try using the trick I used to workaround #186395 in reverse:
>
> Copy /sbin/lvm.static from your FC5 box to somewhere on the RHEL3
> partition (don't overwrite the /sbin/lvm.static from RHEL3 though).
> Let's say you put it in /root/lvm.static
> Then, in RHEL3, try:
>
> /root/lvm.static vgscan
> If that seems to work, try:
> /root/lvm.static vgchange -ay
>
> Paul.
> ===================================================
> unfortunately this does not work. I get a 'FATAL: kernel is too old'
> error. So I guess I should de-lvm my disk? Is this possible?
Another possibility might be to try converting your LVM2 volume group to
LVM1 using vgconvert in FC5.
Paul.
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