FC10 - External USB drive and LVM

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Apr 24 14:23:11 UTC 2009


Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks.
> 
> I tried upgrading my FC7 desktop to FC10 which resulted in the PC not booting, 
> crashing during GRUB.
> 
> I have now installed FC10 onto a new HDD and want to copy the contents from my 
> old drive to my new one.
> 
> I thought that the easiest way would be to use my USB external caddy, but I 
> have a problem.  The box sees the drive, and mounts /boot no problem.
> 
> However, I don't have access to the main contents as they were handled by LVM. 
> How can I now acces those filesystems?
> 
Probably the easiest would be to run system-config-lvm. In Grub, it
is accessed by System --> Administration --> Logical Volume
Management. I have not used it on removable media, but it should work.

Mikkel
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