On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:38:01 -0700, dreeser2-store wrote: > I think you are almost there. I believe (at least it > works on my system) that in the mount command you don't need the "hda3" > It should look like; > mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00 Yes! :) arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # fdisk /dev/hdb The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 59582. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdb: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 59582 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 203 102280+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 204 2109 960624 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hdb3 2110 59579 28964880 83 Linux Command (m for help): q arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9729. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 1912 15358108+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 1913 1925 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1926 9729 62685630 8e Linux LVM Command (m for help): q arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # cat lvm.txt #load device module modprobe dm-mod #change the volumes that exist to active vgchange -ay #mount the logical partition mkdir -p /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00 mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00 arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # ./lvm.txt 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active mount: /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 already mounted or /mnt/VolGroup00/ LogVol00 busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 is already mounted on /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00 arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # umount /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00/ umount: /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00: device is busy umount: /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00: device is busy arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # umount /mnt/VolGroup00/ umount: /mnt/VolGroup00/: not mounted arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/ total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 7 00:17 VolGroup00 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 02:54 cdrom drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 02:54 floppy arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00/ total 200 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 5 00:30 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 18:54 boot drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 24 18:54 dev drwxr-xr-x 100 500 500 12288 Oct 6 02:09 etc drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 24 12:02 home drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Sep 5 00:27 lib drwx------ 2 root root 16384 May 25 12:30 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 5 22:57 media dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 3 12:28 misc drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 18 02:17 mnt dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 3 12:28 net drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 26 20:26 opt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 6 02:09 poweroff drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 25 12:30 proc drwxr-x--- 25 root root 4096 Oct 6 02:09 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Sep 5 00:30 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 25 12:30 selinux drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 4 15:47 srv drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 25 12:30 sys drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 4096 Oct 6 02:09 tmp drwxr-xr-x 13 500 500 4096 Feb 7 2007 usr drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jun 27 02:30 var arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # date Sun Oct 7 13:27:39 PDT 2007 arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # however, I'm not sure how to unmount, and I need to, maybe, futz around with fstab. However, I can now read data, so can back data up easily, which is what I wanted to do :) thanks, Thufir -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
