On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 09:05:01 -0600, Jc García wrote:

> > Another related LVM question.  I have some partitions on LVM.  If I
> > moved the drives to another system, would the new LVMs be found on the
> > new system or is there some magic involved to find and get them
> > mounted?  Example.  My /home is on its own LVM partition.  If I moved
> > the drive that has that on it, would the new system see it or would I
> > have to do something to make it see it?  I suspect and wouldn't want
> > it to mount automatically.  I'd just want to be able to see it and
> > mount it if needed.  Sort of a question I have always wondered about.

> On my experience as long, as udev and lvm are running on the receiving
> system, they should be found and placed for access under /dev, not
> mounted automatically.

Unless there is already a VG on the other system with the same name. LVM
doesn't handle VG name clashes, yet some distros still give them generic
names.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

... "I just forgot to increment the counter," Tom said, nonplussed.

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