Dave Stevens kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai 18 joulukuu 2006 00:19): > It is > partitioned as a swap and /boot and /, with / as Linux type 83 > (according to fdisk, which is correct). When I manually to to > mount / to the /mnt/hda directory I get: > > [root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/hda3 hda > mount: you must specify the filesystem type > [root@localhost ~]# > > When I "man mount" I don't see an LVM option. I have tried > googling LVM but both don't see the point and don't see how. Why do you think that the partition is a LVM physical volume? Type 83 is a regular Linux partition, a LVM volume should have type 8e. Try following the advise in the error message and specify the filesystem type (ext3 by default). > Can someone please tell me how to mount that LVM partition You don't mount LVM partitions directly. You mount LVM logical volumes. > and > if possible refer me to an LVM tutorial? http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxx