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On Feb 18, 2014 1:15 PM, "Mark Haney" <<a href="mailto:mhaney@practichem.com">mhaney@practichem.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 02/18/2014 03:09 PM, Pete Travis wrote:<br>
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> > Jared is assuming here that you have identically named VGs and LVs.<br>
> > If that is not the case, only his step 5 applies. This is a<br>
> > logical leap, because you are mostly communicating frustration and<br>
> > simply mounting a filesystem on an LV isn't difficult or<br>
> > fundamentally different from mounting a filesystem on a normal<br>
> > partition - blkid to list filesystems and their device nodes, then<br>
> > fstab or mount manually.<br>
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> > If you do have identically named VGs and LVs, did you create them<br>
> > during installation? Was the older installation visible during the<br>
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> It's never that trivial in my experience. Regardless of if the VGs<br>
> and LVs are named identically or not. And that's a big part of the<br>
> frustration. The biggest hurdle I've encountered has been<br>
> incompatible LVM versions between what I'm using to mount with and<br>
> what I'm mounting. Granted, I've not had to do that sort of thing in<br>
> a couple of years, so maybe it's better now, but prior to 2012 it was<br>
> a nightmare.<br>
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<p dir="ltr">I can appreciate your concern - I have some horror stories too - but we have no indication that Bob has those kind of problems, and venting your frustration does little to address his immediate problem.</p>
<p dir="ltr">--Pete<br>
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