[YLUG] LVM Woes

[Pete Fenelon]

On 10/07/06, Roger Leigh <rleigh at whinlatter.ukfsn.org> wrote:
>
> The method at that website is rather drastic, and potentially
> dangerous.  It's far simpler to rename the VG on your system, and then
> the other disc will just plug in and work.

It does work, though - we'd made a minor error transcribing the metadata!


> This is one reason why it's a good idea to use VG names based on the
> system hostname (for example), rather than generic names.  The
> RedHat/FC installer doesn't do anyone any favours by defaulting to
> "VolGroup00".

Indeed -- at *worst* the VG should be some UUID; at best it should be
the hostname!

pete
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