Mounting LVM disk

"Weiner, Michael" <weinerm@xxxxxxx> · Mon, 24 May 2010 10:28:50 -0400

List Readers –

I have a Dell server that uses the Perc 6i controller and
had 5 1Tb disks installed (1 for OS and the other 4 in a Raid0 for a large
storage pool). The owner of the server wanted me to swap out the 1Tb disks for
2Tb disks – easy enough I thought, but I ran into some issues trying to
clone the OS disk to the new 2Tb disk, so I just did a re-install. So basically
we now have 5 2Tb disks (1 for OS and the other 4 in a Raid0) like before. I
was able to copy off the data that was on the original Raid0 volume and put it
back on the newly created one that is now 8Tb and that worked well enough. But since
I was unable to clone the original OS disk, and proceeded to simply re-install
the OS, the owner apparently wants his $HOME directory copied off (which of
course resides on the 1Tb OS disk). So, being a SAS disk, I purchased an ICY
Dock which allows me to mount the SAS disk in an external enclosure, and plug
it in via USB (SAS -> SATA -> USB). However when I do a ‘fdisk –l
/dev/sdc’ I receive the following:

[root@gc-server2 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdc

Disk /dev/sdc: 2199.0 GB, 2199023255552 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 267349 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table

Two things are a bit unusual here, first of all its not a
2Tb disk, and secondly why cant I read the partition table. 

Originally the OS was on an LVM volume and by default it was
setup as

 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
/                      
ext3    defaults        1 1

My question is, is there a way to connect and mount this via
USB and be able to get the $HOME directory stuff off that I failed to copy off
before removing the disk?

Thanks in advance

Michael

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