[YLUG] LVM Woes

[Pete Fenelon]

(Sorry, truncated my previous mail)

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.

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.

We have tried following the instructions in
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8874 for reconstituting it as
VolGroup01 but when it comes to the 'vgchange VolGroup01 -a y' we get

0 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup01" now active

instead of the 1 we should be seeing.

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.  Anyone got any hints that would avoid  generating several tens
of gigabytes of network traffic?

pete
--
pete at fenelon.com "There's no room for enigmas in built-up areas"