Re: Re: Freeing pv space for snapshots

["Paul" <unix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, January 6, 2007 4:05 am, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 11:25 -0800, Scott Silva wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> > Right, if you can't unmount there are several options ... we have a
>> > rescue mode on CD-1, the DVD, or the Single Server CD ... also we have
>> > the live CD.
>> >
>> > The OS you boot to needs LVM2 and all the EXT3 tools ... personally I
>> > recommend the LiveCD ... that was one of it's main purposes.  It is
>> much
>> > more full featured than the rescue mode on the other CDs.
>
>> What would be nice, if it already isn't in the live cd, would be a
>> command or
>> binary to look for and mount the existing installations like the rescue
>> mode
>> does. If this is already there, then pardon me, as I haven't seen it.
>> A lot of us know how to walk through and do this, but many people do
>> not.
>
> While the LiveCD does not mount the devices in /mnt/sysimage ... it can
> automount all partitions.
>
> If you start it with the command:
>
> linux automount
>
> You end up with all your partitions mounted in /mnt/ by their name.

The live CD did regognize the LV's, but did not mount them, which I liked
that anyhow, as I want to do it myself, but it was nice it recognized
them.

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