Re: [linux-lvm] recovering data from hdd

["Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr redhat com>]

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Gerry Reno wrote:
> I have a machine that suffered a lightning hit and it's toast.  Even
> with surge protectors it still got zapped.  Anyway, I'm not going to
> rebuild this machine.  What I want to do is to get some information off
> the hard drive.  If I remember it only had one VG VolGroup00.  So can I
> attach this to another machine and read it?  Won't the VolGroup00
> conflict with the hosts VolGroup00?  How can I change it to be some
> other name?

See this thread:

http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20071122.151843.1d3b9863.en.html

The steps are for cloning & renaming an existing VG but they should work
fine to rename any VG that has a name conflict with something else on
the system.

Regards,
Bryn.

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