Situation: we have a Fedora Core 3 box which is, as usual for Fedora, partitioned with an LVM group occupying most of its disc as VolGroup00.<br><br>Problem: we have another disc with a load of legacy data on it, that is curdled kernel-wise to the point that nothing can boot off it but is logically intact. It is, as you will have guessed, another LVM that called itself VolGroup00 on its original machine.
<br><br>We have tried following the instructions in <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8874">http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8874</a>, but when it comes to the 'vgchange -a y Vol<br><br>I'm tempted to just tar'n'gzip the contents across the network to a convenient bit of spare disc, reformat and nuke the drive from low orbit.
<br><br>pete<br>--<br><a href="mailto:pete@fenelon.com">pete@fenelon.com</a> "There's no room for enigmas in built-up areas"