[FC6] How to Read LVM enabled Disk?

[Stuart Murray-Smith]

> Previously I was using FC5 with 40GB HDD with default partition option
> provided during installation ( /boot,/,swap and rest is bulk free
> space). In same computer I am trying to install FC6 in my new 160GB
> drive and remove the old FC5. Now after installing FC6 in new drive, I
> connected the old FC5 disk as slave drive. When I used GParted to see
> info in the slave drive, it only shows the /boot partition as ext3 and
> rest(/ partion) as unknown. Trying to mount the FC5 drive give me the
> device busy or unkown partion error. I actually wanted to transfer
> some files from my FC5 to my new FC6 drive.
>
> However,  I tried to do the reverse which is boot from FC5 disk and
> mounted FC6 disk (which was manually partitioned without LVM) and it
> worked. Even if was able to do my job, I am still curious about how to
> mount the LVM enabled drives in the case (supposingly) when  its not
> bootable?
>
> I am sure I am not the only one with this problem....:-)

Hi Deepak

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/recipemovevgtonewsys.html

HTH

Stu@


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