I tried plugging a external hard drive into my newly installed Devuan system, and immediately ran into a problem: It seems the volume group name used on that drive is the same as the one on my devuan system. Not that surprising; thee external drive contains the Debian system I'm migrating away from.
lvdisplay tells me: root@notlookedfor:~# lvdisplay WARNING: Duplicate VG name VG1: Existing zXs7iy-ukO4-ecrC-B1ag-wQkA-6L4K-YKyKRV (created here) takes precedence over P4Ggic-hQS6-b82V-zUj6-a0eu-dA3z-5mIkOH WARNING: Duplicate VG name VG1: Existing P4Ggic-hQS6-b82V-zUj6-a0eu-dA3z-5mIkOH (created here) takes precedence over zXs7iy-ukO4-ecrC-B1ag-wQkA-6L4K-YKyKRV WARNING: Duplicate VG name VG1: Existing zXs7iy-ukO4-ecrC-B1ag-wQkA-6L4K-YKyKRV (created here) takes precedence over P4Ggic-hQS6-b82V-zUj6-a0eu-dA3z-5mIkOH How do I go about mounting its LVM partitions without screing everything up? Can I just ignore the name conflict and mount by UUID? And are the UUIDs in the error message the ones I need for this? Or is there some way to rename VG1 to something else? Some way that will take care of all the corner cases? There's a command vgimportclone that seems to be for this, but ... it says it also changes the UUID's, which are *not* duplicates, and it just might be that another use of this external disk might rely on those particulat UUIDs. It's just possible that the LVM partition names will also have a conflict. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng