How to fix two disks with the same Volume Group?
Anoop Chandran
anoopcj at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 09:53:08 UTC 2008
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> I have just had Fedora 7 re-installed on my work desktop as the old
> disk drive was slowly failing.
>
> I need to access the old disk if I can, it's still in the system and
> visible but the person who installed it didn't change volume groups so
> I have two disk drives with the same volume group. How do I change the
> name of the old disk's volume group so I can mount it and see it?
>
> Running vgscan returns:-
>
> Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
> WARNING: Duplicate VG name VolGroup00: Existing
> P6sqp0-rIos-JYmi-8L32-ymtN-LzB4-g5BdLL (created here) takes precedence
> over TdWFKp-H4tw-UrVq-Jmre-26hv-zmyE-IZXQLI
> Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
> Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
>
Could you try vgrename? "man vgrename" for more info.
>From man page - vgrename /dev/vg02 /dev/my_volume_group renames existing
volume group "vg02" to "my_volume_group".
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> Chris Green
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