Hi, I am a new here and new to lvm management, so be gentle please. I have systems running of CF cards that were created using the normal installation as was my desktop system. I would like to mount the CF cards via USB device and gain access to the contents of the lvm partition on my desktop system to be able to perform maintenance. Additionally it would be helpful to be able to mount the CF image in loop mode so I can make modifications without the physical hardware. Following the guide here: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/recipemovevgtonewsys.html I can see how to mount the CF partition... but what I don't follow is how the distinction is made when the PV VG Name are the same, ie the default 'VolGroup00' I don't see a facility in pvchange to change the name. Is it necessary to change the name? How do I mount the CF partition? How do I mount the CF partition file image? I would be grateful for any help. This is straight forward with the normal disk volumes and partitions but to do so with lvm I am bamboozled. Doug Gray >From my system: [root@vulcan ~]# pvdisplay /dev/sda2 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda2 VG Name VolGroup00 PV Size 1.80 GB / not usable 22.20 MB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 57 Free PE 1 Allocated PE 56 PV UUID GmT4UA-X3QN-QkGd-pMls-iIlp-UIUd-dmnE5F [root@vulcan ~]# pvdisplay /dev/hda2 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hda2 VG Name VolGroup00 PV Size 186.21 GB / not usable 21.74 MB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 5958 Free PE 1 Allocated PE 5957 PV UUID 02l6cp-88zz-4lbU-3Nut-cb04-5Bkj-yUHkRZ _______________________________________________ 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/
