How to mount an LVM?

[Michael Eager]

ftm wrote:
> I'm having to shift to a new laptop and have removed the drive from the old laptop.  In trying to mount the root "partition" I've run into an area of ignorance - how to mount a logical volume so I can extract the data.  
> 
> Anyone have any quick pointers?

First, run "vgdisplay -v" to check to see if the volume is recognized
and you have LVM installed.

If this shows the volume group and logical volumes, you should be able to
mount the logical partitions:  "mount /dev/VolGroup00/whatever /mnt/whatever".

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