Can LVM1 read an LVM2 volume?

[Paul Howarth]

William Murray wrote:
>    Following this discussion:
> ====================================================
> William Murray wrote:
>         From: William Murray <W J Murray rl ac uk> To: fedora-list
>         Subject: Can LVM1 read an LVM2 volume? Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006
>         10:37:39 +0100  Hello all,
>                        I would like to read my FC5 LVM disks, duak booted with
>                 an old
>                 (~RHEL3) system. If I try vgscan or pvscan on the RHEL 3 machine
>                 there
>                 is nothing  visible.
>         Should I (can I ) remove the lvm layer from FC5?
>                    Or would it be easier to graft lvm2 into RHEL 3?
> You might try using the trick I used to workaround #186395 in reverse:
> 
> Copy /sbin/lvm.static from your FC5 box to somewhere on the RHEL3
> partition (don't overwrite the /sbin/lvm.static from RHEL3 though).
> Let's say you put it in /root/lvm.static
> Then, in RHEL3, try:
> 
> /root/lvm.static vgscan
> If that seems to work, try:
> /root/lvm.static vgchange -ay
> 
> Paul.
> ===================================================
> unfortunately this does not work. I get a 'FATAL: kernel is too old'
> error. So I guess I should de-lvm my disk? Is this possible?

Another possibility might be to try converting your LVM2 volume group to 
LVM1 using vgconvert in FC5.

Paul.