Anyway to Access LVM from Windows?

[Paul Howarth]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 17:59 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Gordon Gallup wrote:
>>> I have yet to find a live CD that will mount a FC3-5 LVM partition.
>>> They all claim the '8e' designation in the partition table is an
>>> unknown file-type.  Is there a late release of, say Knoppix, that
>>> works for this?
>> No idea, but you don't just "mount" LVM partitions. You need to run 
>> vgscan first, activate the volume groups and then you can mount the 
>> logical volumes.
> 
> Is there a guide to recovering data from them?  So far I've kept
> everything critical on hand-configured RAID1 partitions because
> I know how to recover data from any single disk that might be left
> after a disaster. 

I run LVM over RAID1 for the same reasons.

Paul.