On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 20:44 -0500, jack wallen wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 09:15 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > Please run "parted" and print the partition table as root. For example... > > In your case, it will be /dev/hdb...of course. > > oddly enough i'm getting: > > Model: SAMSUNG SP0411N (ide) > Disk /dev/hdb: 40.1GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: msdos > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 1 32.3kB 107MB 107MB primary ext3 boot > 2 107MB 40.1GB 40.0GB primary lvm > > why is the File System on the lvm partition not coming up? > > i know it was partitioned as an ext3 file system under FC6. parted looks at _physical_ volumes only and a filesystem can only be shown if the entire volume is in play. Remember that a logical volume is made of chunks of the volume group--and those chunks could be on different physical volumes. lvm stitches them together. Since parted doesn't talk to the LVM layer, it can't see the filesystem. I hope that explains it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Careful! Ugly strikes 9 out of 10 people! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------