Silly thing like a mount command appears to not be working correctly?

[Richard Hally]

Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> Here is the scenario
> 
> Fedora core4 on a dedicated 80 gig drive /hdb.  (All install defaults taken)
> 
> Fedora core5 on a 200 gig dedicated drive. (All defaults taken)
> 
> Using system bios, I can boot from either drive.
> 
> I can mount the boot partition from either system to the other, but I 
> cannot mount the data partitions.
> 
> My commands were (from root)
> 
> mkdir /other   (on each hard drive)
> 
> 
> mount -t ext3 /dev/hda?  /other
> where I tried ? from 7 all the way to 1. On the core4 system,
> The system could not find values of /dev/hda7 through 3 . Refused 
> /dev/hda2 and showed me the boot partition for /dev/hda1
> 
> 
> On the core5 test3 system using the default values as set up by 
> annaconda at install time, I could see the boot partition on /dev/hdb1 
> but no other partition.
> Is there something I am doing wrong? I tried many flavours of xxx for 
> the  mount -t xxxx (auto, ext2, ext3) , eluding -t parameter.
> 
> Your test against a vanilla corex drive would be appreciated.
> 
> Leslie
> 
Your problem may have to do with the fact that default installs use LVM 
for partitions other than /boot.