On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 17:59 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Gordon Gallup wrote:
> > I have yet to find a live CD that will mount a FC3-5 LVM partition.
> > They all claim the '8e' designation in the partition table is an
> > unknown file-type. Is there a late release of, say Knoppix, that
> > works for this?
>
> No idea, but you don't just "mount" LVM partitions. You need to run
> vgscan first, activate the volume groups and then you can mount the
> logical volumes.
Is there a guide to recovering data from them? So far I've kept
everything critical on hand-configured RAID1 partitions because
I know how to recover data from any single disk that might be left
after a disaster.
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Les Mikesell
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