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2007-12-22 : The Hard Disk Crash

Hard disk crashes are a real pain. Somehow they never seem to occur at a convenient time. Duh! Recently my disk began to show errors and before it died completely I decide to upgrade both the hard disk and my operating system.

I rolled up my shirt sleeves and prepared for the worst. My old OS was Fedora Core 4 and I upgraded to Fedora Core 7 (FC7). Not to stand on the soap box too much but the upgrade was relatively painless. You see, since I began using computers I've always had to run that other OS because (a) wherever I've worked they've always had that and (b) well it's too darned easy to install (comparatively). Now I know all the linux geeks will have just crawled out of the proverbial woodwork. But gosh darn it. It's true!

First of all I have to admit that compared to RedHat 5.1, the first linux I installed, the installers now are way good. They get the video card, sound card and almost all the other hardware you could want detected straight out of the box. They also do a good job of giving you a reasonable amount of software so there is no mucking around installing all your applications after the OS is bedded down.

The biggest stumbling block was the old disk. How to get that disk to be seen by the new system. I had left the old hard disk connected when I installed the new OS, and just switched the master/slave order so FC7 had detected the old LogicalVolume and assigned the new LogicalVolume a different name. So it would appear that everything was detected ok, but where was the old hard disk?

Here's the end result. Since the old disk was "partitioned" into logical volumes, the logical volume manager must be used. The new logical volume was LogicalVolume01, the old LogicalVolume00.