User:Jmbabich/Mount LVM

= How to Mount Another LVM =

Background
My wife's desktop PC became unusable recently when the power supply failed. It was an old PC and the power supply was rather unique. It was running Fedora Linux 7 with LVM2.

I thought I could simply remove the hard drive containing Fedora 7 volumes and install it into an external USB hard drive case. However, once it was set up, only the boot volume was visible, not the volume containing all the data.

Using my limited knowledge of LVM only yielded a duplicate volume name error message.

After some research, I found a solution, which I will document here for the benefit of others.

Useful Commands
Before using the following commands, launch a terminal session, type in "su -" without the double quotes, and enter the root password when prompted.

Rename the Logical Volume Group
Rename the logical volume group of the external drive from Vol Group01 (or other unique name):

Mount the Drive
Create a folder for use in mounting the external drive:

Next, mount the data partition of the external drive: