On Sat, January 6, 2007 6:21 pm, 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? After I booted up on the CentOS 4.4 live CD, the LV's where both there, I just needed to mount them. And BTW, I tried the snapshot thing, it worked flawlessly. I tarred a backup then removed the LV of the snapshot. Now my next step is to see if I can actually restore the whole system on my test box. I also tarred the hda1 which is mounted as /boot. If this all goes well, I won't ever have to bring the system down for DD backups anymore.