2012/11/4 Alan Feuerbacher <alan...@comcast.net> > On 11/4/2012 1:10 PM, Tim wrote: > > Firstly, it was already doing "auto," as far as I'm aware, so that's >> pretty much redundant. What's really missing is *which* partition to >> try and mount on sdc. >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >>> /dev/sdc1 * 2048 206847 102400 83 Linux >>> /dev/sdc2 1026048 2930276351 1464625152 8e Linux LVM >>> >> >> The small sdc1 is, most likely, a boot partition, which you can ignore. >> > > That's right. sdc2 contains the data I want to retrieve. > > You want to be trying to mount sdc2. >> >> However, that's LVM, not a plain partition, and I'm fairly certain that >> you want to use the LVM tools to mount it. And, I'm very certain that >> you're going to have problems if it uses the same volume names as your >> new drive that you're running from. The simplest solution will probably >> be to rename your old volumes before you attempt to mount them. >> > > That sounds very reasonable. Unfortunately, after looking at the man page > for lvm and its associated sub-programs, and trying a number of them, I > can't find anything that looks like it might work. > > The basic problem is that the lvm tools don't seem to recognize sdc2 as an > LVM partition. I don't understand why, because that disk was formatted by > the Fedora installer. It was a completely vanilla installation, so far as I > know. I'm still at a loss here. > > So, look into managing LVM volumes, then get back to the list when you >> get stuck again. (It's ages since I've tried anything with LVM, it's >> probably changed since then, and I've probably forgotten what I did.) >> > > Anything you can remember could be very helpful. > > Future hint: Next time you create LVM volumes and partitions, put >> something unique into their names. A date, a name, or a number... >> > > Well, whatever is there was chosen by the Fedora installer when I > installed the 32-bit system some days ago. > > But if you never intend to try and span across several discs, which >> brings about its own set of hazards (one failure on any disc, and all of >> them becomes wrecked), I'd advise to completely avoid LVM on your next >> installation. >> > > I more or less tried that on my old 32-bit system. I installed a new disk > and installed Fedora on a non-LVM partition. It could not see the LVM > partition on the older disk -- same problem as I have now. > > Thanks for your help. > > Ok lets try
shell# pvs you must see line /dev/sdc2 and its VG name shell# vgscan shell# vgchange -a y "VG name from pvs output" shell# lvscan here goes your ACTIVE "/dev/***" output shell# mnt "/dev/***" /mnt/fedora32 > Alan > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/users<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users> > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/**Mailing_list_guidelines<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines> > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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