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Today's Topics:

1. Help - Lost Fedora after installing another OS (LVM)
(Peter Hemmings)
2. Re: Help - Lost Fedora after installing another OS (LVM) -
solved (Peter Hemmings)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:31:56 +0000
From: Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [bristol] Help - Lost Fedora after installing another OS
(LVM)
Message-ID: <526E593C.3050606@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"

Hi,

I don't change OS's often and seem to have lost my LVM partition by
installing Mint14!

I installed the new OS (from live LXF DVD) to a spare 28GB partition and
kept my original fedora partition and did not notice anything on the
installer to stop creating a new boot partition!

I now have a dual boot (XP/Mint) box with a new grub2 menu that does not
include fedora!

Gparted GUI shows an error that it cannot read LVM partition.
It is still there but I need to know
How I can get some data from my LVM /home partition?

or

Is it possible to get my fedora to run again!?

Sorry about this but I rarely add OS's and normally use VM's but they
tend to be a bit slow.

The data is not critical but I would just like some bookmarks I found
recently.

Attached are some outputs which may be helpful, I can just do a new
Fedora install but thats cheating and I would like to know how to
resolve this in case I do it again!

Regards
--
Peter H
-------------- next part --------------
(parted) print all
Model: ATA WDC WD2500BEVT-0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 37.5GB 37.5GB primary ntfs
2 37.5GB 38.0GB 524MB primary ext4 boot
3 38.0GB 143GB 105GB primary lvm
4 143GB 250GB 107GB extended
5 143GB 173GB 30.2GB logical ext4
6 173GB 174GB 999MB logical linux-swap(v1)
7 174GB 250GB 76.0GB logical ext4


Error: Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sdb.
Ignore/Cancel? Ignore
Model: Freecom DataBar USB2.0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1032MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags


Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_newlap-lv_newlap02: 72.3GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 72.3GB 72.3GB ext4


Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_newlap-lv_newlap01: 31.5GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 31.5GB 31.5GB ext4


Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_newlap-lv_newlap00: 1074MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 1074MB 1074MB linux-swap(v1)


(parted)
-------------- next part --------------
Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd8f2d8f2

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 73261055 36629504 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 73261056 74285055 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 74285056 279085055 102400000 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda4 279087102 488396799 104654849 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 279087104 338003967 29458432 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 338006016 339957759 975872 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 339959808 488396799 74218496 83 Linux

Command (m for help):

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:42:44 +0000
From: Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Help - Lost Fedora after installing another OS
(LVM) - solved
Message-ID: <526E85F4.3080805@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

On 28/10/13 12:31, Peter Hemmings wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't change OS's often and seem to have lost my LVM partition by
> installing Mint14!
>
> I installed the new OS (from live LXF DVD) to a spare 28GB partition and
> kept my original fedora partition and did not notice anything on the
> installer to stop creating a new boot partition!
>
> I now have a dual boot (XP/Mint) box with a new grub2 menu that does not
> include fedora!
>
> Gparted GUI shows an error that it cannot read LVM partition.
> It is still there but I need to know
> How I can get some data from my LVM /home partition?
>
> or
>
> Is it possible to get my fedora to run again!?
>
> Sorry about this but I rarely add OS's and normally use VM's but they
> tend to be a bit slow.
>
> The data is not critical but I would just like some bookmarks I found
> recently.
>
> Attached are some outputs which may be helpful, I can just do a new
> Fedora install but thats cheating and I would like to know how to
> resolve this in case I do it again!


Dunit!

FWIW:

Found it was lvm2 I needed for Mint not lvm!
I downloaded it and and squashfs-tools as suggested in another blog
(don't know if that was necessary as it was making partitions and
mounting them).

I have 3 logical volumes lv_newlap00, lv_newlap01 and lv_newlap02.
lv_newlap00 is a swap, 01 is "/" and 02 is "/home".

I made 2 directories lvm1 and 2 then mounted the root and home
partitions as ext 3 and up they popped on the mint desktop!

I will probably do a fresh install of FC19 but still not sure how I can
install a mint OS without overwriting my fc19 ext3 boot partition.

I will look carefully at the LXF DVD installer window before doing it
again!


Regards
--
Peter H



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