Anyway to Access LVM from Windows?

Gordon Gallup gallup.gordon at gmail.com
Fri Jun 9 16:32:51 UTC 2006


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?
GAG

On 6/9/06, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> At 9:03 AM +0100 6/9/06, Chris Bradford wrote:
> >Hi guys,
> >
> >I'm doing a bit of forward planning here. In the event of an os problem
> >and a user needed files off a hardrive with LVM is there any way to
> >access it from Windows XP Pro? I've found lots of ext2 ext3 viewers /
> >drivers, but none of them can access LVM's.
> >
> >I suppose the other option would be to plug the drive into another Linux
> >box, would the LVM then appear under 'computer' or would I need to mount
> >it? If so is this a simple process even for an LVM?
>
> Or use a live CD, such as Fedora Rescue CD or Knoppix or whatever.
>
> And do backups, so you won't need to do this.
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