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[Pete Travis]

On Feb 18, 2014 1:15 PM, "Mark Haney" <mhaney at practichem.com> wrote:
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> On 02/18/2014 03:09 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
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> > Jared is assuming here that you have identically named VGs and LVs.
> > If that is not the case, only his step 5 applies.  This is a
> > logical leap, because you are mostly communicating frustration and
> > simply mounting a filesystem on an LV isn't difficult or
> > fundamentally different from mounting a filesystem on a normal
> > partition - blkid to list filesystems and their device nodes, then
> > fstab or mount manually.
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> > If you do have identically named VGs and LVs, did you create them
> > during installation? Was the older installation visible during the
> > process?
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> It's never that trivial in my experience.  Regardless of if the VGs
> and LVs are named identically or not.  And that's a big part of the
> frustration.  The biggest hurdle I've encountered has been
> incompatible LVM versions between what I'm using to mount with and
> what I'm mounting.  Granted, I've not had to do that sort of thing in
> a couple of years, so maybe it's better now, but prior to 2012 it was
> a nightmare.
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> Mark Haney

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.

--Pete
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