On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:30 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: > I have a thumb drive with fedora installed on it. When I plug in the > drive, /boot mounts automatically. fdisk -l shows the root partition > device is LVM. I would like to mount / by hand at another mount point, > but I can't figure out what parameter to give to -t. man mount no > help. man lvm doesn't seem to mention mounting. Googled around, can't > find the answer. > > I went to the fedora lvm howto > (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html). It tells you about > 11.1. Initializing disks or disk partitions > 11.2. Creating a volume group > 11.3. Activating a volume group > 11.4. Removing a volume group > 11.5. Adding physical volumes to a volume group > 11.6. Removing physical volumes from a volume group > 11.7. Creating a logical volume > 11.8. Removing a logical volume > 11.9. Extending a logical volume > 11.10. Reducing a logical volume > > I don't think I need to do any of that. I just want to mount it. How? > > Thanks, > Dave I'm assuming you're talking about mounting when booted from another device. This might be helpful: http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/159-.html Basically: lvm vgscan # find volume groups lvm vgchange -ay # activate them lvm lvs # show VGs and LVs Then you can: mount /dev/VG/LV /mntpoint # replace VG and LV appropriately -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
