On 11/18/06, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > > > /dev/sda3 is a LVM physical module, so you cannot mount it directly. > > Have you tried running "vgscan" first? It should scan the disks and > rebuild the device nodes. > I agree with Florin. Once you run vgscan, you may need to activate the volume group: # vgscan # vgchange -a y <volumegroup name> # mount /dev/<VGname>/<lvolname> /mnt/dir Then you should be able to access your filesystem(s). For future reference, you might want to consider a layout such as this: /dev/[hs]da1 /boot (primary partition) /dev/[hs]da2 swap (primary partition) /dev/[hs]da3 / (primary partition) /dev/[hs]da4 LVM (primary partition) /dev/[hs]da4 Consists of the following: /dev/vg00 /dev/vg00/lvol1 /usr /dev/vg00/lvol2 /var /dev/vg00/lvol3 /opt /dev/vg00/lvol4 /tmp /dev/vg00/lvol5 /home A layout such as this allows you to mount your / partition via a rescue CD without having to perform all the vgscan/vgchange/etc steps mentioned above. Most times, you only need to access the / partition. But, if you need to access the others, then you can activate the VG. Your /boot and / paritions are not going to change over the life of the system, thus putting them and swap on primaries. After that, allocate the rest of your drive to LVM. This is how I prefer to do my systems, and I haven't had an issue yet with this configuration. -- -Shawn -Nemo me impune lacessit. Ne Obliviscaris.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061118/a50e4da1/attachment.htm