On Sat, January 6, 2007 4:05 am, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 11:25 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > <snip> > >> > 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. > > While the LiveCD does not mount the devices in /mnt/sysimage ... it can > automount all partitions. > > If you start it with the command: > > linux automount > > You end up with all your partitions mounted in /mnt/ by their name. The live CD did regognize the LV's, but did not mount them, which I liked that anyhow, as I want to do it myself, but it was nice it recognized them.