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Mounting a ‘Foreign’ LVM Volume

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First, what do I mean by foreign?  Foreign means mounting the logical volume with an OS that it wasn’t originally installed on.  This could be because you are using KNOPPIX to repair something on the volume, or because you’ve moved the disk to a new location.

The process itself if quite simple, but it would help if you understood how logical volumes work first.  Click here for some nice background

Mounting an LVM Volume

  1. First Identify it with the fdisk command
  2. And find the VolGroup with the pvs command
  3. lvdisplay will show you the Logical Volume
  4. Finally mount it

# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylindersUnits = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83 Linux/dev/sda2              14       60801   488279610   8e  Linux LVM

# pvs  PV         VG         Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
/dev/sda2  VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   465.66G    0

lvdisplay

Okay, this isn’t finished yet, but I published it so that next time I’m working on this task I’ll complete it.  If you have any suggestions or want to complete this list. let me know.

About Jay Farschman - Jay currently works as a Senior Systems Administrator for an asset management company in Colorado where he works with companies that produce hardware, telecommunications software and financial services.  Jay previously owned a consulting company and provided training and consulting services for three Fortune 500 companies and numerous small businesses where he leveraged Linux to provided exceptional value.

Replacing a Bad Disk in an Logical Volume

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It’s pretty straight forward. Once you pull the disk out you are going to see the error that it cannot find ’some -ong-hyphenated-uuid’ To fix this you need to add a new disk and then create it with the UUID of the original missing one.

# pvcreate –uuid 56ogEk-OzLS-cKBc-z9vJ-kP65-DUBI-hwZPSu /dev/sdc
 Physical volume “/dev/sdc” successfully created

I’ve seen guys freak out over this process.  Don’t.  It’s easy.

About Jay Farschman - Jay currently works as a Senior Systems Administrator for an asset management company in Colorado where he works with companies that produce hardware, telecommunications software and financial services.  Jay previously owned a consulting company and provided training and consulting services for three Fortune 500 companies and numerous small businesses where he leveraged Linux to provided exceptional value