cant mount second drive

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 21:47 -0500, jack wallen wrote:
> > The problem is that it is an ext3 partition in an LVM partition. SO
> > you can not mount it directly. You would mount something like:
> > 
> > mount /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 /data
> > 
> > Where you may run into a problem is that it may be VolGroup00
> > instead of VolGroup01 and VolGroup00 is probably being used by the
> > new installation as well. You may want to take a look at the LV
> > tools. (man lvm is a good place to start.)
> > 
> 
> that is the problem exactly. i just read i might have to unhook the new
> drive, hook up the old drive (by itself), boot, rename the volgroup with
> lvm, and then reattach the new drive. problem is this: the old system
> was 32 bit - the new system is 64 bit. 

Irrelevant.  The LVM labels on the various bits don't care about whether
the OS is 32- or 64-bit.

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