[linux-lvm] seems as if iy should be simple but I'm stuck

[Dave Stevens]

I've recovered two drives from a failed raid-10 array and now have a  
working degraded array from which I'd like to retrieve data. After  
assembling the array I ran fdisk and saw an LVM setup, with  
VolGroup00. Running lvscan shows the xen virtual machine names and  
disk allocations as they should be. I almost never do anything with  
lvm so I thought I'd make a directory and mount the logical volume on  
it to check out the data. When I mount /dev/VolGroup00/lvname I am  
told I need to specify a filesystem type. But specifying either ext3  
or lvms gives errors. I don't see what I need to do. Anyone?

The idea is to move the xen virtual machine to another working  
centos-xen machine, start it and do data recovery. I can supply more  
details but don't know what is relevant.

Dave


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