Anne Facq <annefacq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Aaron Clark wrote: >> Anne Facq wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> I use XEN on Fedora 8 with Domu on a LVM partition. >>> >>> Before, on Fedora Core 6, I could backup each Domu by directly >>> mounting the filesystem of the Domu (mount /dev/vg00/lvfoo /mnt) >>> and then running dump on it. >>> >>> On Fedora 8, I can't mount directly the filesystem of the Domu, so >>> I >> >> Pardon if this is a dumb question, but why not? > > Because in Dom0 the device for a paravirt Domu (/dev/vg00/lvfoo in my > case) is mapped to a virtual disk /dev/xvda (I created the Domu with > virt-install), and the only way I found to mount this Domu filesystem, > is to : > - get the size of the boot sector of /dev/vg00/lvfoo > (with fdisk -ul /dev/vg00/lvfoo) > = 63 > - compute the offset (multiply by block size) > - specify this offset to the mount command : > mount -o offset=32256 /dev/vg00/lvfoo /mnt/ > > As I can't specify an offset to dump, the command "dump 0 -f lvfoo.dump > /mnt" doesn't work. Shot from the hip: losetup with the offset? [...] -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
