/tags/lvm/Recent content in Lvm on LifeHugoen-usMon, 05 May 2014 12:50:00 +0530/post/2014/2014-05-05-recovering-luks-encrypted-ubuntu-lv-group-when-mounting-on-a-different-ubuntu-system/Mon, 05 May 2014 12:50:00 +0530/post/2014/2014-05-05-recovering-luks-encrypted-ubuntu-lv-group-when-mounting-on-a-different-ubuntu-system/<p>I frequently mirror and swap internal hard drives using an external USB/eSATA docking station. However, this creates a tricky issue when mounting on another Ubuntu machine.</p> <p>During standard installation with LUKS + LVM encryption, Ubuntu names the root volume group <code>ubuntu-vg</code>. If you plug in a secondary drive where Ubuntu was also installed, LVM encounters a name conflict between the host&rsquo;s volume group and the external disk&rsquo;s volume group, preventing activation.</p>