Migrating from 11.0 -> 11.3 filesystem problems

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With the release of openSUSE 11.3 I decided to upgrade my three-year old computer which is running 11.0 and has been running out of disk for the last few months. I bought a new 500Gb HDD and installed it as the master drive, and moved my old drive to the slave. I installed 11.3 on the new drive. Too easy.

Then I tried to mount my old drive so I could move my account files across. I wasn’t able to mount the drive, which uses LVM (Logical Volume Manager). Is there any reason this wouldn’t be recognised by 11.3???

Then I tried to mount my new drive from my old system but 11.0 doesn’t have support for the ext4 filesystem. I loaded the ext4dev kernel module with no joy:

samsara:/ # lsmod | grep ext4
ext4dev               222360  0
jbd2                   83236  1 ext4dev
crc16                  18432  1 ext4dev
mbcache                25348  2 ext4dev,ext3
samsara:/ # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4'
samsara:/ # mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4'

If anyone has any ideas about how I can get my files across to my new installation I would be most appreciative!

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michael henry wrote:

> With the release of openSUSE 11.3 I decided to upgrade my three-year
> old computer which is running 11.0 and has been running out of disk
> for the last few months. I bought a new 500Gb HDD and installed it as
> the master drive, and moved my old drive to the slave. I installed
> 11.3 on the new drive. Too easy.
>
> Then I tried to mount my old drive so I could move my account files
> across. I wasn’t able to mount the drive, which uses LVM (Logical
> Volume Manager). Is there any reason this wouldn’t be recognised by
> 11.3???
[snip]
>
> If anyone has any ideas about how I can get my files across to my new
> installation I would be most appreciative!

We’ll have to find out why you cannot mount your LVM volumes. Please
provide error messages, logmessages etc. - “I wasn’t able to mount the
drive” is just not enough information.

–
Per Jessen, Zürich (21.7°C)
http://en.opensuse.org/User:Pjessen

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Thankfully this was an easy fix!
I was just trying to mount the volume with the mount(8) command.

linux-lm9b:/ # mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt
mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'

The solution was to go into the YAST partition manager and select a mount-point for the volume there. I was then able to copy all my files across. Yay!

Thanks for your help!