Johnny Hughes spake the following on 1/5/2007 11:13 AM: > On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 10:03 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: >> Paul wrote: >> >>> But how do I mount it when booted up on CD when it's burried somewhere in >>> the LVM on hda2? >> Boot normally, stop everything that uses it, unmount it. >> >> If it's something you can't unmount (/, /usr, /var and alike), boot into >> rescue mode from CD. When prompted, let Anaconda find your existing >> CentOS installation. It will than create all devices and mount all file >> systems under /mnt/sysimage. Simply unmount what you need to unmount. >> Note, if you want to unmount root (and only if you want to unmount root) >> which is /mnt/sysimage, you'll need to unmount all filesystems under it >> first. As well as some stuff not shown as mounted by df command (not >> sure about exact list, try unmounting /mnt/sysimage/proc, >> /mnt/sysimage/sys, /mnt/sysimage/dev). > > Right, if you can't unmount there are several options ... we have a > rescue mode on CD-1, the DVD, or the Single Server CD ... also we have > the live CD. > > The OS you boot to needs LVM2 and all the EXT3 tools ... personally I > recommend the LiveCD ... that was one of it's main purposes. It is much > more full featured than the rescue mode on the other CDs. What would be nice, if it already isn't in the live cd, would be a command or binary to look for and mount the existing installations like the rescue mode does. If this is already there, then pardon me, as I haven't seen it. A lot of us know how to walk through and do this, but many people do not. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!