On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 15:27 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Dario Nievas <nievasdario@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > could you please provide the output of: > > "pvscan" > > "lvscan" > > "vgscan" > > > > lvm pvscan;lvm lvscan;lvm vgscan > PV /dev/sdc2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [7.28 GB / 32.00 MB free] > PV /dev/sda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [232.62 GB / 32.00 MB free] > Total: 2 [239.91 GB] / in use: 2 [239.91 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] > ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [230.66 GB] inherit > ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01' [1.94 GB] inherit > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... > Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 > Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 > > > > If you were able to see and activate the VG, it shouldn't be harder than > > "mount /dev/<vgname>/<logvolname> /mnt/anymountpoint > > It demands -t. This usually indicates that there is no recognized filesystem on the block device (i.e., wrong or empty block device). > [root@cod ~]# mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 test2 > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 looks like swapspace - not mounted > mount: you must specify the filesystem type I'm guessing that both the USB drive and your system have VolGroup00 as the volume group name, which is causing confusion. Try renaming one of them using vgrename (carefully :-) (We really should improve the default naming scheme for VGs). -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines