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I am trying to mount an old linux hard drive. It was the old servers hard drive stuck in the new server via a USB port.

I am following the instructions on this page:

Mounting an old LVM hard drive in Fedora 17 gives error message

However I am stuck on a part. In the above instructions, he runs lvs and gets:

LV       VG         Attr     LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Move Log Copy%  Convert
LogVol00 VolGroup00 -wi-ao-- 461.53g 
LogVol01 VolGroup00 -wi-a---   1.94g

However when i run it I get:

lv_root VolGroup -wi------- 231.56g
lv_root VolGroup -wi-ao---- 926.75g
lv_swap VolGroup -wi-------   2.00g
lv_swap VolGroup -wi-ao----   4.00g

In his you can see they have different names. In mine I can tell which is the old drive (The smaller one) but it is named exactly the same as the other drive? Thus I am not sure which one to mount. This is a live server so I am leery about just randomly mounting things.

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  • Please use [Markdown](http://serverfault.com/editing-help) and/or the formatting options in the edit menu to properly type-set your posts to improve their readability and in particular format console output and Shell commands as `code` – HBruijn Apr 20 '16 at 21:37

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Have you tried following the rest of the guide? You might still be able to activate it (try vgchange -ay without parameters) and mount by uuid (look for device files in /dev/disk/by-uuid).

Alternatively, you may rename one of your volume groups using vgrename <uuid> VolGroup00_tmp. You should be able to get uuid from output of vgdisplay. See question LVM: Duplicate VG name VolGroup00 for more details.

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  • Thank you, I was able to use vgdisplay to get the UUID and from there I was able to change the name of the drive: 'code'(vgrename R8pJbF-Zl0G-mcXg-CEQI-8b03-TbwM-boaX3O VolGroup00_tmp) Volume group "VolGroup" successfully renamed to "VolGroup00_tmp" – Weblamer Apr 22 '16 at 12:28