[CentOS] mount old LVM drive

[Michael Watters]

Chuck Wow wrote:
> How can I mount an old LVM drive into a new system so I can view the 
> old files? I want to mount it as /mnt/backup
>  
>
> fdisk -l
>
You need to activate the volume group before you can mount the LVs on 
it.  The system should do this automatically on boot but sometimes you 
have to run it manually.

vgscan
vgchange -a y

mount -t ext3 /dev/my_volume_group/foo /mnt/backup