--- On Mon, 9/22/08, Eric <spamsink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Eric <spamsink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem) > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 1:41 PM > At 12:45 PM 9/22/2008, Chris Tyler wrote: > > >>>>> > >The specific commands you need are vgscan and vgchange; > access to the > >logical volume will be through > /dev/mapper/yourVGname-yourLVname > >(or /dev/yourVGname/yourLVname) and not /dev/sdb* > (which is the raw > >partition containing a PV). > > > >(Although the context is different, there are some > examples of > >vgscan/vgchange usage here: > >http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/159-.html > ) > >>>>> > > Good afternoon, Chris. > > My problem is related but not exactly the same. In my case > I have > upgraded from FC5 to F9 by doing a fresh install on a new > hard drive, > and I need to mount the old FC5 boot disk to copy some > stuff off of it. > > "mount /dev/sdb2 /driveb" doesn't work for > the reasons noted > (/dev/sdb2 is a container and not a volume). > > So, I said "lvm vgscan" and got: > > File descriptor 20 left open > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... > Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata > type lvm2 > Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata > type lvm2 > > Then I said "pvs" and got: > > File descriptor 20 left open > PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree > /dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 111.59G 32.00M > /dev/sdb2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 76.22G 32.00M > > (Hope the formatting and column alignment on the above > doesn't come > through all screwed up...) > > Apparently it thinks that both volumes are named VolGroup00 > (instead > of ...00 and ...01) so things like lvm vgchange don't > do any good > because it doesn't know which VolGroup00 to make > available. > > /dev/mapper contains: > > crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 60 2008-09-22 11:20 control > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 0 2008-09-22 15:20 > VolGroup00-LogVol00 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 1 2008-09-22 11:20 > VolGroup00-LogVol01 > > ... with no corresponding LogVol00/01 for VolGroup01 (since > the > system was told that both of the volumes are named > VolGroup00). > > I've Googled everything I can think of and am out of > ideas. > > Thanks... > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines Eric, You can try to use Slax Linux Live CD(get the latest slax608rc6.iso. http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=17340 or you can also use: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=707874 to find out answers! HTH, Antonio -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
