Re: cant mount second drive

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 20:44 -0500, jack wallen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 09:15 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
> > Please run "parted" and print the partition table as root.  For example...
> > In your case, it will be /dev/hdb...of course.
> 
> oddly enough i'm getting:
> 
> Model: SAMSUNG SP0411N (ide)
> Disk /dev/hdb: 40.1GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
> 
> Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
>  1      32.3kB  107MB   107MB   primary  ext3         boot
>  2      107MB   40.1GB  40.0GB  primary               lvm
> 
> why is the File System on the lvm partition not coming up?
> 
> i know it was partitioned as an ext3 file system under FC6.

parted looks at _physical_ volumes only and a filesystem can only be
shown if the entire volume is in play.  Remember that a logical volume
is made of chunks of the volume group--and those chunks could be on
different physical volumes.  lvm stitches them together.  Since parted
doesn't talk to the LVM layer, it can't see the filesystem.

I hope that explains it.

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