Access Old Home Directory - USB enclosure - LVM

[Jim Cornette]

Robert L Cochran wrote:

>>
> I can't remember when I got this idea of adding a 60 Gb drive to my 
> former system. But the drive was probably new at the time and had no 
> data on it. The 120 Gb drive had a Fedora Core 3 system on it -- and 
> maybe it was earlier than that, Fedora Core 2? My idea was to preserve 
> everything on the 120 Gb  drive and install a new Windows XP plus 
> Fedora Core 3 system on the 60 Gb drive.
>
> Maybe what happened is that the 120 Gb drive already had an LVM volume 
> group on it, and when I added the 60 Gb drive the unpartitioned free 
> space in it was being seen as an extension to that volume group. So it 
> simply gobbled up the new physical volume. (I simply let the installer 
> do what it wanted.) But LVM still let me treat the 60 Gb drive as if 
> it were a separate physical volume. So to really see my home directory 
> at last, I need to have both physical drives installed in my system. 
> What interfaces I use (SATA or PATA) doesn't matter, but both drives 
> are needed for me to see the /home directories. Does this make sense?
>
> Bob Cochran
>
I believe that when you allow the installer to do as it pleases, it 
could come up with some scheme similar to your assumption.
I however could not say for certain if one super LVM would be generated.

Jim