-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 termeau sebastien wrote: > Hello, > > I have an hard drive image in a file. > If I try to mount it directly using "mount -o loop my_file.img > /mnt/my_dd", fdisk reports > mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member' > This image contains a volume group that itself contains 4 logical vol > group. > lvscan reports: > LogVol00 2.94GB > LogVol03 64MB > LogVol02 256MB > LogVol01 2.31GB Put the image file on a loop device, then activate the volume group it contains: losetup /dev/loop0 my_file.img vgscan vgchange -ay <vg name> Then you should be able to access it as normal. Just dd the file system off the LV device node. To shut it down: vgchange -an <vg name> losetup -d /dev/loop0 Obviously, change loop0 to something else if 0 is already in use. Kind regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGBRa/6YSQoMYUY94RAlyzAKCzFAYh3TXtpL0JuQ5RxANO1LahewCeKbz4 /E2z2S6BVx7QyUKJkuV4uek= =kMMP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
