Help: lost LVM logical volumes on old disk after FC4 install
by Kevin Flynn
I'm seeking advice on how to recover old logical volumes that I stupidly
lost after a FC4 install as follows:
Initial conditions
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- Had old computer running FC4
- Old computer had one disk with two partitions: /boot and an LVM2 PV.
- The PV belonged to volume group VolGroup00, and had three logical volumes:
LogVol00 (root), LogVol01 (swap), LogVol02 (home)
(and this PV was the only PV in the group).
Then I went and did this
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- Got new computer (with new disk)
- Installed old disk in new computer, thinking I'll have easy access to my
old data
- Performed custom install of FC4 on new computer
- During installer's manual partitioning phase, I defined a logical volume
group
on the *new* disk called VolGroup00, with three logical volumes:
LogVol00 (root), LogVol01 (swap), LogVol02 (home)
- I then noticed that the installer had properly found my *old* disk and the
*old*
PV. But the old PV was not associated to any LVM volume group
(unlike those on the *new* disk, which were shown as belonging to
VolGroup00).
- Then I did something like: clicked "LVM", and created VolGroup01, which
then appeared (in the partitioner GUI listing) next to the PV on my old
disk.
I thought: "OK, so my new FC installation will go on the new disk in
VolGroup00, and my old data will still be on the old disk in VolGroup01"
(I was careful to *not* check the "format" box).
- I then finished the FC4 installation
Now I can only find logical volumes on my new disk. My logical volumes on
the old
disk seem to have disappeared!
Running vgscan and lvscan:
- on *new* disk: finds all LVs properly
- on *old* disk: finds only volume group VolGroup01, but no logical
volumes!
Running vgchange -ay doesn't yield anything different.
Two questions:
1. What happened? Did I inadvertently overwrite my old volume group when I
defined VolGroup01 in the installation GUI? If so, I'm surprised that
the
installer didn't warn that I was about to lose any predefined logical
volumes!
2. Is there any way to recover the data on my old logical volumes? I have
to
believe that the data is still all there in principle.
Thanks very much for any advice.
Dave
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Hi Umberto,
I have also checked into installing the Fluendo plugin. I believe that to use
this plugin you would also need to install the latest version of Gstreamer
(GStreamer 0.10). If I'm wrong about this, someone please correct me. While
I'm sure this is possible, if you are, like me, a relative novice with Linux,
your best (or at least, less stressful) option may be to wait for Fedora Core
5 which I believe will include this latest version of GStreamer. This would
mean waiting until the March 15th release date. After installing FC5 you
might do better installing the plugin. Trying to do it now would probably
entail dealing with some unresolved dependency issues.
I also want to say "Hi" to the community. This is my first post to the list.
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Hello,
I have a need for one of the older FC4 updated kernels specifically
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Does anybody have any experience with the UltraNav pointing device on
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Many people say that it works, but the question is, what does that mean?
The device consists of 5 buttons, a little rubber stick in the keyboard,
and a more normal
touch pad.
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the middle mouse button
be uses in conjunction with the rubber stick to control scrolling. (Or
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I think I would have preferred it as 3 buggon mouse).
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mp3 plugin for rhythmbox
by umberto rossi
Since my Rhythmbox does not read MP3s I have downloaded a plugin from
Fluendo, because several websites said that was an easy solution, but
now that I have the file (libgstflump3dec.so) I do not know where I
should put it... the instructions in the install file that cames with
the plugin do not seem to have had any real effect (they should create a
folder and copy the file there, but it seems the folder has not been
created, or I haven't been able to find it). Anyway, the Rythmbox can't
read mp3s...
Btw, these are the instructions I found in the install file:
To install this GStreamer plug-in:
- make sure you have a plugins directory in your home directory:
mkdir -p $HOME/.gstreamer-0.10/plugins
- copy this plug-in there:
cp libgstflump3dec.so $HOME/.gstreamer-0.10/plugins
- verify that it works:
gst-inspect-0.10 flump3dec
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RE:Re: dhclient not using settings in .conf file
by Thomas Fischer
Yep the config files are correctly named:
/etc/dhclient-eth0.conf
/etc/dhclient-eth1.conf
I have one wired and wireless connection that I use separately. I am not
using NetworkManager
Brgds
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:29:16 +0200
From: Markku Kolkka <markkuk(a)tuubi.net>
Subject: Re: dhclient not using settings in .conf file
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
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Thomas Fischer kirjoitti viestissC$C$n (lC$hetysaika maanantai, 30.
tammikuuta 2006 09:26):
> I have some prepend an postpend statements in dhclient conf
> file.
What's the name of the file? It should be /etc/dhclient-ethN.conf
with N replaced with the number of network adapter. Plain
"dhclient.conf" won't work.
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dhclient not using settings in .conf file
by Thomas Fischer
All,
I am having a weird problem with dhclient, that I have no idea how to resolve!
I have some prepend an postpend statements in dhclient conf file. Statements
like this:
supersede domain-name "fischer-lxsrv.work.tvf-prod.com";
prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
supersede ntp-servers 66.187.233.4,66.187.224.4;
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers,
domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name;
However dhclient never uses these and only inserts the values received from
the dhcp server. So far example, I never see the 127.0.0.1 in my
/etc/resolv.conf...
Any ideas on why this happening and how I can debug this?
thanks
--t
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I've been looking for this function bonobo_main() but I can only find the declaration in the libbonobo reference manual under entry for bonobo-main.
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