Allegedly, on or about 04 November 2012, Alan Feuerbacher sent:
Here I'm trying to mount the old system: ########### [root@alan-fedora alan]# mount /dev/sdc /mnt/fedora32 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so
[root@alan-fedora alan]# mount -t auto /dev/sdc /mnt/fedora32
Firstly, it was already doing "auto," as far as I'm aware, so that's pretty much redundant. What's really missing is *which* partition to try and mount on sdc.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 2048 206847 102400 83 Linux /dev/sdc2 1026048 2930276351 1464625152 8e Linux LVM
The small sdc1 is, most likely, a boot partition, which you can ignore. You want to be trying to mount sdc2.
However, that's LVM, not a plain partition, and I'm fairly certain that you want to use the LVM tools to mount it. And, I'm very certain that you're going to have problems if it uses the same volume names as your new drive that you're running from. The simplest solution will probably be to rename your old volumes before you attempt to mount them.
So, look into managing LVM volumes, then get back to the list when you get stuck again. (It's ages since I've tried anything with LVM, it's probably changed since then, and I've probably forgotten what I did.)
Future hint: Next time you create LVM volumes and partitions, put something unique into their names. A date, a name, or a number...
But if you never intend to try and span across several discs, which brings about its own set of hazards (one failure on any disc, and all of them becomes wrecked), I'd advise to completely avoid LVM on your next installation.