On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:39:24 +0800 "Hikaru Amano" <kagesenshi.87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just lost my laptop today .. (motherboard/power unit/whatever goes > broken -> the laptop wont even power on) .. > > in the hdd theres a few assignments and project work which i need to > submit tomorrow and a few days later next week ... and now i'm trying > to mount the laptop hdd -> which using LVM - connected using a USB > connection , from my desktop ... any idea how to init the groups and > and make the partitions appear on /dev/ ??? See "man lvm" This lists the related tools, in particular lvscan (scan for logical volumes) lvdisplay - which will tell you about volumes and especially vgscan which I suspect is what you need in order to make the volumes appear
