Re: USB external Hard disk - May be LVM

From: Antonio Montagnani (anto.montagnani_at_virgilio.it)
Date: 03/21/05

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    Jim Cornette ha scritto / wrote il / on 20/03/2005 11:13:

    > Antonio Montagnani wrote:
    >
    >> I installed FC3 (fresh install) on external USB hard disk (see
    >> different post) , now i moved the HD to another Fedora machine (that
    >> is un upgrade from FC2)
    >>
    >> USB hard disk is immediately connected to the system but I see only a
    >> /boot(2) partition.
    >> I suppose that other directories are LVM type.-How can I see other
    >> partitions??
    >>
    >
    > Using Felipe's directions from an earlier discussion, I had to do this
    > myself. The labels were the same, so /dev/mapper did not recognize
    > them on startup.
    >
    > Here is what I did to see the lvm volume from the other disk.
    >
    > Directions from Felipe: (This works with secondary drive mounts also)
    >
    > Once booted into text-mode rescue, invoke the following commands:
    >
    > lvm lvscan
    > lvm vgchange -ay
    >
    > This will scan for all LVM volumes and then will make them active and
    > accessible.
    >
    > lvm vgchange -an
    >
    > will deactivate them all.
    >
    >
    > Additional steps that I had to do;
    > Perform the step above to activate the lvm.
    >
    > Make a mounting point directory, such as /mnt/logvol
    > mkdir /mnt/logvol
    >
    > mount the volume with your resulting device name, for me it was
    > mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/logvol
    >
    > Change to the /mnt/logvol directory and you should see the content of
    > the disk there.
    >
    > When done with disk, change to a different directory to allow the
    > drive to be unmounted, then:
    > umount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/volg
    >
    > If you have other volumes with similar names, I don't think this
    > would work.
    >
    > On my new system, I changed to using conventional partitioning. There
    > were no duplicate lvms to deal with.
    > This disk was a laptop disk mounted in a USB to IDE bookdrive device.
    > I was able to transfer desired information from the drive mounted
    > above using this method. If you have lvm on the new installation also,
    > you might need to use lvm help for other options.
    > lvm help
    > should list the other options.
    >
    > Jim
    >
    I re-installed Fedora on ext3 partitions.
    When I start the rescue mode, no linux system is found!!!! and if I
    connect the USB drive to another system, the hard drive is recognized
    and all partitions are seen.
    What am I missing???

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