the filesystem is LVM and most everywhere i go it says it not possible to recover. But i will try the fedora forums.
Thanks.
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> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:27:00PM -0000, noel el wrote:
> > Hi all
> > I was using Fedora 10 and recently installed Fedora 12 on a new hard drive. When I tried to connect to the old drive via usb external connection I can see /boot this mounts as sdb1 however iam unable to mount the rest of the drive which i can see in Palimpsest because it says filesystem not recognised.
> >
> > can anyone suggest how i can get the info off of the old drive.
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> Do you know if the old drive is an LVM? Did you, when you last
> installed, take the defaults? Because, Fedora, in their great wisdom,
> does LVM by default---but of course, recovering data from it is
> non-trivial. (My own theory is that Ubuntu pays them to drive people
> away, but that's another story.)
>
> You might also try asking on Fedora forums--if the old partition is an
> LVM then be sure that you put that in the thread's title, there's
> several people there with a lot of experience with it.
>
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
> PGP keyID EB3467D6
> ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
>
> Buffy: Okay, well, how long before you un-crypt it?
> Willow: Hours. Days maybe. Anyone suggesting months would not
> be accused of crazy talk.
>
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