H.D. install problem -

[Russell Miller]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
> I removed the 80gB WindowsXP hard drive [/dev/sda] and replaced it 
> with a larger drive on which I installed F9 from a Live CD.  The 
> second drive [dev/sdb] has F8 on it, my primary Linux until this 
> morning.  I would like to extract some configuration date from the F8 
> drive but have been unable to access it no matter what I've tried.  
> The problem is that it uses the LVM designations which I can't seem to 
> deal with instead of the old "/dev/sda" etc.  I am lost!
>
> Fortunately I have another F8 computer with most of the config data 
> duplicated on it but I still want to be able to use the secocnd drive 
> in this box.  I'm not sure what  data to provide or even what question 
> to ask other than how do I go about getting access to the old F8 
> system.  Grub only offers the the new F9 install.
>
> Fdisk shows the following:
>
> # fdisk -l  /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x000a7927
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1          25      200781   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2              26       30401   243995220   8e  Linux LVM
>
>
> # fdisk -l  /dev/sdb
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x0005c4cc
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/sdb2              14        9729    78043770   8e  Linux LVM
>
>
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> Bob
>
The utilities  vgscan, pvscan and lvscan will assist you in your goal.

--Russell