I suggest in the future you do not LVM root (/). Along with /boot (which
cannot be LVM'd) it is a good idea to avoid doing it on your root
partition for the reasons you've now learned.


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.
>  
> 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?
>  
> Thanks,
> V.
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