Re: Cannot mount old drive with LVM partition - help!

Bit Twister <BitTwister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:slrnei0a28.3hf.BitTwister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

I picked custom or manual or some such option when I installed fc5 on
my multi-boot system. That allowd me to make partitions for fc5. I
picked ext3 for new partition creation and created mount points for
the others.

grep LABEL etc/fstab
LABEL=/fc5 / ext3 defaults
1 1 LABEL=/2006 /2006 ext3 defaults
1 2 LABEL=/2006oe /2006oe ext3
defaults 1 2 LABEL=/accounts /accounts
ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/kubuntu /kubuntu
ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/free_9b /free_9b
ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/local/opt
/local/opt ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/site
/site ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/tmp
/tmp ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/ubuntu /ubuntu ext3 defaults
1 2

That's good to know bit. I think that the worst of the worst has
happened. I was looking at logical volume groups in webmin and tried to
make a new one, from my /dev/hdb2 partition. I started the process and
noticed at the bottome "all data will be lost" and quickly stopped the
process.

I then halted the system, connected my FC3 drive, booted, and kept my
fingers crossed. Kernel panic. No linux partions found. I can see with
fdisk -l /dev/hdb that the partitions are still there, and partition 2 is
an lvm volume, but how to access it now. That was all my stuff,
everything that I had saved! <sob!>

Looks like I am commited now to FC5 and have no choice but to move ahead.
I did try to rename the FC3 lvm to VolGroup01 instead of VolGroup00 like
it was and got a device busy result. Now when I go back into webmin and
check logical volume managment, I can see two volume groups, 00 and 01
and 01 is on /dev/hdb2, my old FC3 install! I see that there is one
physical volume present, /dev/hdb2 and it is 190Gb in size, that is it,
my FC3 install. But over in the Logical Volumes, the group has no logical
volumes yet. I know that the volume is there, I just screwed it up but
how to get it back? I really, really need this badly and am afraid to
lose it altogether. There has to be a way to recover this logical volume
somehow, at least it has a different volume group now, 01 instead of the
00 that the current system resides on.

Oh man somebody help. Bit, where can I post for help with this? Are there
any good newsgroups for linux volume group recovery?

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