loopback mounting a LVM in two disk image files
Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
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Wed Nov 25 02:50:26 UTC 2009
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:39 AM, fred smith
<fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> I've got two files that are disk images of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, containing
> my F11 installation from my eeepc 901. I'd like to occasioinally be able to
> access files therein without having to restore them to the "disks" in the
> 901 (thereby blowing away my F12 installation, btw.)
>
> I created them with f11's Anaconda, using its default settings to partition
> the two drives into one big LVM volume, with separate /boot and swap.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction to find out how to access the
> partition hidden somewhere within that 20 gigs of bits?
>
> recipes welcome.
>
> Thanks!
>
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You might want to use kpartx.
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