I dd'd the LV from a snapshot to an empty LV on a different VG with identical extents like this: dd if=/dev/vgsnapshotsource/win2k8-snapshot of=/dev/vgtarget/win2k8-target I'm a little confused by what you mean by "partition" and disk in this context. There is the LV container created, a partition, but also a volume and presented as a "disk" to the Windows vm. Then inside that LV, W2k8 is installed, and that partitioned inside that LV two logical drives which were then formatted NTFS by the W2k8 installation. So, I dd'd the LV "partition" but wasn't I also dd'd Window's "perception" of its disk? Christopher G. Stach II wrote: > ----- "Ben M." <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> If I try to mount the LV: >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> [root@vm1 ~]# mount -t ntfs /dev/thisvg00/thisw2kwe-b4change >> /mnt/ntfs >> NTFS signature is missing. >> Failed to mount '/dev/mapper/serv1vg00-w2kwe--b4cert': Invalid >> argument >> The device '/dev/mapper/serv1vg00-w2kwe--b4cert' doesn't seem to have >> a >> valid NTFS. >> Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a >> partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around? > > Did you dd the disk or the partition? If you did the whole disk (verify with fdisk or something), you can use kpartx to add the LV as a disk and then mount the partitions that are created. > _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
