Here are some things I have tried with no luck... losetup /dev/loop5 ~/wdcdns1.img sfdisk -l /dev/loop5 Disk /dev/loop5: 606 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature /dev/loop5: unrecognized partition table type No partitions found --- mount -o loop wdcdns1.img /mnt/tmp/ mount: you must specify the filesystem type --- mount -t xfs -o loop,ro,noatime,nodev,nofsck ~/wdcdns1.img /mnt/tmp/ mount: unknown filesystem type 'xfs' --- Thanks for your input! --- Chris Edwards -----Original Message----- From: linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Greg Freemyer Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 10:36 AM To: LVM general discussion and development Subject: Re: Moving Xen LV to image and mounting the image. On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Chris Edwards <cedwards@smartechcorp.net> wrote: > Hello All! > > I have been trying to solve a problem. In my current scenario I created on our SAN multiple volume groups with a single logical volume on each taking the entire groups space. I realized that I made a mistake and did not leave room for doing snapshots. Now I am moving each of the LV's to a new single large logical group and leaving space for snap shots. So then I realized that I could do a "dd" to an image file (example: "dd if=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 of=/root/wdcdns1.img"). I was wondering if there was a way to mount this image file? I can't seem to mount it no matter what I do. Am I doing this correctly? > Chris, I don't remember the details exactly, but I've done this before. You tried mounting it loopback, right? ie. mount -t xfs -o loop,ro,noatime,nodev,nofsck somesystem.img /image If that fails, it may be because you imaged it with it mounted. If so, you will may need to apply any outstanding journal entries to get it to mount. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
