[Libguestfs] libguestfs question - multiple partitions in the guest

Jim Tockstein jim.tockstein at alcatel-lucent.com
Wed Aug 1 22:06:38 UTC 2012


virt-filesystems -d guest | grep root

gave me that same output

On 8/1/2012 5:02 PM, Shawn Kennedy wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richard W.M. Jones [mailto:rjones at redhat.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 4:22 PM
>> To: Shawn Kennedy
>> Cc: libguestfs at redhat.com; 'Smudde, Mark Alan (Mark)'; 'Tockstein, James E (Jim)'
>> Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] libguestfs question - multiple partitions in the guest
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 03:31:19PM -0500, Shawn Kennedy wrote:
>>> I wonder - maybe an new tool (virt-grub) to dump out the grub
>>> content of the guest image (if linux)!! :-) :-) :-)
>>
>> It's actually pretty simple to script this.  See attached
>> (requires a grub1 guest).
>
> Luckily, we still are grub1 .....
>
> # grub --version
> grub (GNU GRUB 0.97)
>
> So I ran it and it tells me I have 2 OSs ...
>
> 	root: /dev/VG1/LV0001.root
> 	root: /dev/VG1/LV0002.root
>
> I thought it might dump the running grub, but then again, it
> doesn't know what "running" is it looks like using /var/log/messages
> file to determine what is (likely) mounted in the guest.
>
> Thanks!
> Shawn
>




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