On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:27 PM, compdoc <comp...@hotrodpc.com> wrote: >> I am not sure if this is your problem but what I can determine is that > there may be a conflict with the same names of the lvm volumes; ie the old > volume that I am trying to mount has the same name as the volume on the > machine that is active.
Note that CentOS 6 will not. RedHat rewrote anaconda to use the hostname in the volume groups, which is very helpful to avoid just this situation. > I was wondering if you were running into that problem. I've run into it in > the past. Centos always uses the same logical group and logical volume names > as default for a new install, and you can't mount a foreign LVM if the names > conflict. > > I once set up a test system to try to recover some files from an LVM, and > installed centos with no LVM to avoid the conflict, but centos didn't > install the lvm tools automatically . (I like using system-config-lvm) > However, the tools are easy enough to install with yum. Some live CDs let > you install system-config-lvm too. > > You can also use unique LVM group and vol names when installing centos to > avoid this... > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
