On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Chris Tyler <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. >> >> 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. No? Not sure what you mean. It's a thumb drive. Plug it into my linux box. Mount it. That's all. >This might be helpful: > > http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/159-.html That site does not respond at the moment. > > 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 Here's my try: [root@cod ~]# lvm vgscan 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 [root@cod ~]# lvm vgchange -ay 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active [root@cod ~]# lvm lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert LogVol00 VolGroup00 -wi-ao 230.66G LogVol01 VolGroup00 -wi-ao 1.94G [root@cod ~]# fdisk -l [snip] Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux /dev/sdc2 26 977 7646940 8e Linux LVM[root@cod ~]# mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 test2 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 looks like swapspace - not mounted mount: you must specify the filesystem type [root@cod ~]# mount -t lvm2 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 test2 mount: unknown filesystem type 'lvm2' [root@cod ~]# mount -t ext2 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 test2 mount: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 already mounted or test2 busy [root@cod ~]# mkdir test4 [root@cod ~]# mount -t ext2 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 test4 mount: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 already mounted or test4 busy [root@cod ~]# mount -t swap /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 test4 mount: unknown filesystem type 'swap' [root@cod ~]# mount -t ext3 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 test4 mount: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 already mounted or test4 busy I am guessing wildly at the -t parameter, man mount doesn't seem to mention lvm. I am probably confused about something. [root@cod ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 238064272 56725108 181339164 24% / /dev/sda1 194442 26546 157857 15% /boot tmpfs 4098712 48 4098664 1% /dev/shm /dev/sdb1 240308484 191772 227909724 1% /export/cod /dev/sdc1 194442 18628 165775 11% /media/_boot Should there perhaps be a /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 in the df output? Thanks, Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
