mounting lvm disk that was from another system and NOT exported...

[VINCENT SPURGEON]

I have a drive from a HPUX 11 system that was part of volume group "vg00" that contained two drives (each filesystem was mirrored).

That drive is now the SECOND drive of another system with its own volume group "vg00".

Is there a way to mount the second drive under a different volume group, (i.e., vgtmp)?

I was thinking that I should create the /dev/vgtmp/group and files first then vgimport?

I wanted to get everyone's ideas or to see if anyone had to do this before. Thanks!

[Denver Osborn · Accepted solution]

haven't tried it before but here are some thoughts!

You should be able to vgimport the drive, keep in mind that vgimport should complain because not all the disks are there. When you go to activate the temp vol group you'll have to activate it with no quorum, if you get that far. Once it activates mount the filesystems. I'm assuming that since it was mirrored you should be able to get to the data if the data was there.

# mkdir /dev/vgtmp
# mknod /dev/vgtmp/group c 64 0x0?0000
# vgimport /dev/vgtmp /dev/dsk/c?t?d?
# vgchange -a y -q n /dev/vgtmp


Hope this helps, let us know how it goes

-Denver

[VINCENT SPURGEON]

I think this is on the right track, I'll try this later today and get back with you

[John Palmer]

Hi,

This isn't in any way connected to your other post about not being able to boot after a kernel rebuild is it?

How did you relocate it from vg00 on the one server to vg00 on the other?

Was it mirrored at all?

What exactly are you trying to achieve? There are probably easier ways of going about it!

Regards,
John

[frank beall_1]

The easiest way to do this is to go in to sam and create a new volume group and add the disk to the new volume group. it should already have logical volumes on it. create the mount points to mount the logical volumes on. ( you just need the mount points.)

I did this two weeks ago.

[frank beall_1]

use the import function in sam.

[VINCENT SPURGEON]

Seperate situations and servers.

This 2nd drive is from a system that is nolonger around and a user wants to retrieve some files that might possibly be there.