[Sussex] Cloning disks

[Brendan Whelan]

Spotted my own silly mistake, volGroup00 should have started with a 
capital V.  Brendan

Brendan Whelan wrote:
> 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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