[Sussex] Cloning disks

[Brendan Whelan]

Thanks for the responses. I have created a system drive, with a 
different VolGroup to the default, and placed my source system as the 
second drive. I will then rsync the necessary partitions from the source 
to a set of directorries on the system disk (obviously not the same ones 
as are being used for the booted system). I can then change the source 
for a target disk, containing a virgin copy of the operating system, and 
rsync back the other way. This technique has worked well in the past and 
has the added advantage that I can keep several system copies on one disk.

I have hit a snag - the source disk won't mount......

[root at mountain ~]# lvdisplay -c
  
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00:VolGroup00:3:1:-1:0:147587072:2252:-1:0:0:253:2                
(my source disk)
  /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01:VolGroup00:3:1:-1:0:4063232:62:-1:0:0:253:3
  
/dev/VolGroupbu00/LogVolbu00:VolGroupbu00:3:1:-1:1:151846912:2317:-1:0:0:253:0     
(The booted disk)
  /dev/VolGroupbu00/LogVolbu01:VolGroupbu00:3:1:-1:1:4063232:62:-1:0:0:253:1

[root at mountain ~]# mount /dev/volGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/secondary
mount: special device /dev/volGroup00/LogVol00 does not exist

Any suggestions, Brendan
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