On 12/31/05, Robert L Cochran <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jim Cornette wrote: > > > Robert L Cochran wrote: > >> My problem is, I can see the /boot partition on the drive, but I > >> cannot see the / (root) partition, and I'm want to get at my former > >> home directory because I have some files there I forgot to back up. > >> I'm wondering if that partition was named something like: > >> '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' and mounted on /. I recently ran into this very thing and wondered what the solution was. I was dry-running a system rescue using Knoppix live and Systemrescuecd (another live distro), and I could mount everything but the LVM partitions on the Fedora 4 machine under test. (And, of course, that's where the vast majority of my files of interest are.) What it taught me is that I won't be using LVM anymore, because it's not conducive to rescue efforts. When Fedora 5 is released in a few months, I intend to rebuild partitions from scratch, without LVM. I didn't try the Fedora 4 rescue CD. Using it might have met with more success. Jay
