Accessing disk from F19 in F21

Markus Lindholm markus.lindholm at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 18:01:30 UTC 2014


On 18 December 2014 at 18:52, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Markus Lindholm
> <markus.lindholm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I just updated a computer from Fedora 19 to 21. I did it by adding a
>> second SSD to the computer on which I installed F21. The problem is
>> now that I can't access the files from the old SSD. They seem to be
>> overshadowed as the volume group has the same name as the new
>> installation.
>
> Odd. The Fedora 21 installer should have avoided using the same VG
> name as before. I just tried this with Fedora 20 and 21. Both default
> to VG name "fedora" but Fedora 21's installer knows to add numbers if
> "fedora" already exists. This is what I end up with:

Ah, I physically disconnected the old disk during installation of F21,
as it is identical in size with the new one. Just to make sure I
wouldn't mix the two during installation.

/Markus


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