[linux-lvm] disk recovery - mounting external USB lvm2 volume

[Allan Wolfe]

Yes.  The grub.conf does refer to the logical volume.  I also see
/etc/blkid/blkid.tab which looks like it is built at boot time (kudzu?).

Thanks for the advise.  Before doing anything, I'll back up what is
sacred;-)

On 7/16/07, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:28:01PM -0500, Allan Wolfe wrote:
> > Thanks Brian.  This is starting to make sense.  The Fedora 7 and the old
> FC6
> > both are named the defaults.  Here is the result from the vgchange:
> >
> > $ sudo vgchange -a y
> >  2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
> >  2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
> >
> > Digging around in the man pages, it looks to me as though I will need to
> > rename the active/current volume using vgrename command, change the
> > /etc/fstab to the new name and then follow on with mounting the old
> volume
> > using the old default volume.
> >
> > Am I on the right track?  Thanks for your help.
>
> Yes, you are.  However, I recommend that you plan every step carefully,
> so that you don't wind up with an unbootable system.  Make sure that you
> have renamed the "local" LVM volumes, the fstab entries and anything
> that might depend on those names. ( some things can break, but you had
> better make sure that you can boot -- by the way, what do the entries in
> grub.conf refer to? )
>
>
>
> Brian
>
>
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