Hello experts, I need your advice to save some data: My old laptop died, but I could make the HD work again via a USB-adapter. I attached it to the new Laptop (as well running SuSE 10.0 / lvm2), and the lvm on the USB-Disk is not displayed. The lvm on the installed system is active: z60m:~ # pvdisplay /dev/sda8 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda8 VG Name system PV Size 28.75 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 7359 Free PE 11 Allocated PE 7348 PV UUID ZdwaLr-anXc-Z7ck-cGI0-oFoW-UluI-F7SZ18 This group is also active: z60m:~ # lvscan ACTIVE '/dev/system/daten' [12.70 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/system/home' [8.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/system/root' [8.00 GB] inherit Now, on the USB-disk is a LVM as well: z60m:~ # pvdisplay /dev/sdb8 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sdb8 VG Name system PV Size 17.48 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 4475 Free PE 9 Allocated PE 4466 PV UUID P8KDPg-QbME-4Hzc-lw8G-ntOA-1dIv-1DeXmR vgscan does not activate the group on the USB - due to the same name? z60m:~ # vgchange -a y 3 logical volume(s) in volume group "system" now active z60m:~ # pvscan PV /dev/sda8 VG system lvm2 [28.75 GB / 44.00 MB free] Total: 1 [28.75 GB] / in use: 1 [28.75 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] z60m:~ # lvscan ACTIVE '/dev/system/daten' [12.70 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/system/home' [8.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/system/root' [8.00 GB] inherit What is your proposal to activate the USB-lvm group - best without loosing data..... TIA Axel -- "Feel free" mit GMX FreeMail! Monat für Monat 10 FreeSMS inklusive! http://www.gmx.net _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
