mount LVM?

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Mon Dec 18 02:06:33 UTC 2006


On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Dave Stevens wrote:

> Quoting Markku Kolkka <markkuk at tuubi.net>:
>
>> Dave Stevens kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai 18
>> joulukuu 2006 00:19):
>>> It is
>>> partitioned as a swap and /boot and /, with / as Linux type 83
>>> (according to fdisk, which is correct). When I manually to to
>>> mount / to the /mnt/hda directory I get:
>>>
>>> [root at localhost ~]# mount /dev/hda3 hda
>>> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>>> [root at localhost ~]#
>>>
>>> When I "man mount" I don't see an LVM option. I have tried
>>> googling LVM but both don't see the point and don't see how.
>>
>> Why do you think that the partition is a LVM physical volume?
>> Type 83 is a regular Linux partition, a LVM volume should have
>> type 8e.
>
> and it does, I misread the output but have now reread it. It is 8e as you say.
>
> Try following the advise in the error message and
>> specify the filesystem type (ext3 by default).
>
> did so with this output:
>
>[....]
>
> I have started the LVM manager and there is a screenshot of what it finds at:
>
> hp.bccna.bc.ca/~aa056/ScreenshotofLVM.png
>
> I only want to get the data off hda3 and I will then retire the drive.
>
> Thanks for the reference to the tutorial, I'll read up on it.

What's the result of "ls -l /dev/mapper/* ?

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