[Wylug-help] Mounting LVM partition - Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

[Stephen]

lvscan

to scan the lvm

vgdisplay to make sure the volume group has been detected

lvdisplay to see if the logical volume has been detected

then do a mount /dev/<volumegroupname>/<logicalvolumename> target


On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 03:25:50PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Thursday 24 June 2010 14:16:17 James Holden wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 14:01 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > > sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> > > sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> > > sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0xffffffff as device size
> > > sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 4294967296 512-byte logical blocks: (2.19 TB/2.00
> > > TiB)
> > > sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> >
> > I'd send the SATA adapter back, it's obviously returning crap to the OS.
> >
> > James
> 
> By a process of elimination, unplugging, removing and reseating the HDD, 
> rebooting etc., I have got the HDD working and am currently copying across 
> the contents of the NTFS partition (/dev/sdb1).
> Also auto-mounted was the boot partition (/dev/sdb2)
> However, I can't get the main root partition to mount. As the fdisk shows, 
> this was a LVM.
> 
> Can anyone please tell me how to mount the LVM so I can copy the contents 
> across.
> 
> Gary
> 
> [root at dcomp5 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xa42d04a3
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1          13      104391   de  Dell Utility
> /dev/sdb2              14       15481   124246710    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sdb3   *       15482       15507      204800   83  Linux
> /dev/sdb4           15508       38913   188008695    5  Extended
> /dev/sdb5           15508       38913   188008448   8e  Linux LVM
> [root at dcomp5 ~]#
> 
> -- 
> Gary Stainburn
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