How to mount old FC10 hdd as secondary drive in new FC10 machine

Frank Millman frank at chagford.com
Thu Jun 11 14:29:23 UTC 2009


Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
> 
> 2009/6/11 Frank Millman <frank at chagford.com>:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have installed FC10 on a new hdd.
> >
> > I have an existing FC10 on another hdd, and I want to copy 
> some data onto
> > the new hdd. I have put the old hdd into the same machine, 
> as a secondary
> > drive, but I am having difficulty in mounting it.
> >
[...]
> 
> I can't help you fix it, but I think your problem is that you have a
> clash of Volume Group names. Both your old and new disks are part of a
> VG called VolGroup00 and I have some ideas how to go about fixing
> that.
> 
> I think if you can work out what the UUID of the Volume Group on your
> F10 disk is, you can run:
> vgrename <F10UUID> VolGroup00_tmp
> 
> You should be able to see the UUID of that Volume Group from F10 with
> "vgdisplay"
> 

Thank you so much, Sam.

For some reason I had to reboot before it would work properly, but now it is
working like a charm.

Very much appreciated.

Frank




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