[CentOS] LiveCD System recovery - Mounting LVM?
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Sat Jan 8 23:03:03 UTC 2011
At Sat, 8 Jan 2011 15:27:39 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am trying to recover data from my old system which had LVM. The disk had
> two partitions - /dev/sda1 (boot, Linux) and /dev/sda2 (Linux LVM). I had
> taken a backup of both partitions using dd.
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> Now I am booting of CentOS live cd for system restore. I recreated
> partitions like previous system using fdisk and then used dd to dump all the
> data onto it. I would like to mount sda2 as LVM, but I don't know how to do
> that. Any steps or howto mount LVM manually would be really helpful. I think
> I can recover the system once I am able to access sda1 and sda2. Any help?
You will need to do a vgscan to scan for the LVM volumn you created.
Once scanned, you can then mount the file system(s) there, either using
the mapper files (/dev/mapper/volumegroup-volumn) or the mount labels
(LABEL=label). If this was a stock CentOS install, the root file system
will be labeled '/' and the /boot file system will be labeled '/boot':
mkdir /mnt/sysimage
mount -v LABEL=/ /mnt/sysimage
mount -v LABEL=/boot /mnt/sysimage/boot
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