On 15:05 Sat 28 Apr , Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yann Boutin wrote: > > Greetings, > > I've had no success with mounting a vfat file system created by a > > Windows XP guest on a lvm volume. Windows XP guest is running under xen 3.0.5 rc3. > > > > # mount -t vfat /dev/vg1/win1 /mnt/ > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/vg1/win1, > > missing codepage or other error > > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > > dmesg | tail or so > > > > Presumably, the windows install partitioned the raw storage? > > Try running "file -s /dev/vg1/win1". If it says something like this: > > /dev/sda: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1, > startsector 63, 208782 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x8e, starthead 0, > startsector 208845, 195157620 sectors, code offset 0x48 > > Then there's a partition table on the device and the VFAT file system is > in a partition on it. > > You can map those partitions using kpartx. Run: > > kpartx -a /dev/vg1/win1 > > And you should see some new entries in /dev/mapper like win1p1 win1p2 > etc. You can remove them with: > > kpartx -d /dev/vg1/win1 Actually I solved my problem the same way but by hand. I map the first inner partition with dmsetup with adding an offset of 63 blocks. But really thanks for your answer and Kpartx is much simplier. I've started a similar thread here too : http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2007-04/msg00846.html Best regards Yann. _______________________________________________ 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/
