On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:24:53 +0100, Nigel Wade wrote: > You have two LVM partitions, /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3. LVM will have been > used to create one or more physical volumes from these, which will then > have then been partitioned/allocated to logical volumes. Use pvdisplay > and lvdisplay to see what physical and logical volumes are in existence. > > Your mount table shows VolGroup00-LogVol00 as already mounted. This > means that there is a physical volume VolGroup00 and from that the > logical volume LogVol00 has been created, formatted and mounted as your > root partition. The slave hdd, sdb, has FC6 and an old windows partition which I don't care much about. sda has a new windows partition, which mounts fine, and Fedora 7. I'm in fedora 7, want to mount FC6 read/write. [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sdb3 VG Name VolGroup01 PV Size 17.60 GB / not usable 10.06 MB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 563 Free PE 1 Allocated PE 562 PV UUID DrJnyU-0ZY8-lINx-fGUH-URmf-xjWR-ugj3iq --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda3 VG Name VolGroup00 PV Size 59.78 GB / not usable 446.00 KB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 1913 Free PE 1 Allocated PE 1912 PV UUID IcusuX-bLBK-bEbj-XZek-HAfc-5bg3-Bwwknw [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 VG Name VolGroup01 LV UUID HCEiol-LCUA-Mcyn-gA80-07MB-jaVU-0jDyC4 LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 16.62 GB Current LE 532 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:2 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01 VG Name VolGroup01 LV UUID qv0q7h-WwtY-ZyDf-nLYU-7ZxY-3hlf-IjauhQ LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 960.00 MB Current LE 30 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:3 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID GnxSyS-YOEm-dXQe-0dbR-s9cc-DbBe-fDg1db LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 58.81 GB Current LE 1882 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID QQCpaD-nfoe-AtLp-rQnE-1t1c-q67p-dxW1NY LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 960.00 MB Current LE 30 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:1 [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda2 on /boot type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) /dev/sdb2 on /mnt/sdb2 type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# mount -a mount: mount point does not exist [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs-3g users,rw 0 0 /dev/sdb2 /mnt/sdb2 ext3 users,rw 0 0 /dev/sdb3 [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# ll /mnt/ total 14 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2007-06-24 17:25 sda1 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 2007-06-05 21:33 sdb2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-26 03:06 sdb3 [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# date Tue Jun 26 15:07:49 PDT 2007 [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# thanks, Thufir