Johnny Hughes spake the following on 1/6/2007 3:29 PM: > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 15:21 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: >> Johnny Hughes spake the following on 1/6/2007 1:05 AM: >>> 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. >>> >> But does that mount LV's in LVM? Or do you still need to use LVM commands to >> activate LV's? > > It will automount LV's if you do automount ... for example ... /mnt/dm-0 > was my root filesystem when I booted up and vgdisplay and lvdisplay show > all the items there. > > you can unmount and remount other ways if you want. > > I also had sda1 as my boot partition ... that showed up as /mnt/sda1 ... > it was not mounted as /mnt/dm-0/boot ... so if you want to mount items > like that, you will have to do it manually. > Just having the accesibility is great! I always have the regular rescue mode for when I need chrooted /mnt/sysimage access. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!