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

[James Holden]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 15:43 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Name                /dev/vg_gary/lv_root
>   VG Name                vg_gary
>   LV UUID                rnpFB6-o5Q1-GmzM-yUoo-YE2B-vZIj-PjwdJh
>   LV Write Access        read/write
>   LV Status              NOT available
>   LV Size                174.39 GiB
>   Current LE             44644
>   Segments               1
>   Allocation             inherit
>   Read ahead sectors     auto
[snip]
>    
> [root at dcomp5 ~]# mount -t ext3 /dev/vg_gary/lv_root /media/linux/
> mount: special device /dev/vg_gary/lv_root does not exist
> [root at dcomp5 ~]# 

That's because the status is listed as "NOT available". Try:

lvchange -ay /dev/vg_gary/lv_root

If that doesn't change it to "available", post the output of pvdisplay
and vgdisplay.

Cheers,

James



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