Disc Crash (LVM vg00/lv00 twice, how to recover?)

Stuart Murray-Smith Stuart.Murray.Smith at gmail.com
Wed May 23 10:29:40 UTC 2007


On 5/23/07, Markus Lindholm <markus.lindholm at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I did in a similar situation was to
>
> - Power down
> - Disconnect the new root disk
> - Power up with a LiveCD (I used F7-test4)
> - Use vgrename to rename the volume group on the old root disk
> - Power down
> - Reconnect the new root disk
> - Power up
> - Now the old root disk should be accessible as it doesn't have the
> same volume group name anymore as the new one.

And rename any LV/VG references to a unique name (at re/install time)
to prevent any future conflicts :¬)

S~



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