On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 10:34:56AM -0600, Venkat Chandra wrote: > I am trying to mount the root filesystem of a FC 5 installation from a > Knoppix Live CD. The root filesystem is setup on a logical volume. > > From Knoppix, fdisk -l gives me: > > root at 1[knoppix]# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 4462 35840983+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda2 4463 4475 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda3 4476 9726 42178657+ 8e Linux LVM > > So when I try to mount /dev/sda3 on a mount point (say on an existing > directory /mnt/linux), mount asks for the type of filesystem. I know it's > ext3 and I specify the same. It spits an error saying that it can't find an > ext3 filesystem on /dev/sda3. /dev/sda3 is a LVM physical module, so you cannot mount it directly. > Here's the /etc/fstab on FC 5: > > [root at FC5 ~]# cat /etc/fstab > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 > [root at FC5 ~]# > > I tried mounting /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00, and it says there's no such > partition. > > Any ideas on what I am doing wrong and how I can mount the "/" from Knoppix? Have you tried running "vgscan" first? It should scan the disks and rebuild the device nodes. florin -- If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061118/81a4aaec/attachment.pgp