[CentOS] mounting images created using dd that contain two partitions

aurfalien at gmail.com aurfalien at gmail.com
Sun Sep 27 03:09:58 UTC 2009


Is your local host using LVMs and if so, is your volume group  
something like VolGroup00?

Is your image file also of a VolGroup00?

- aurf
On Sep 26, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Devraj Mukherjee wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to mount images that I previously created with dd and the
> images have two partitions (swap and LVM). I use these images to house
> data for my Xen Guests.
>
> For some reason (possibly Kernel conflicts for paravirtualized
> domains) I am unable to boot my Guest images. Failing which I would
> like to mount the disk images and atleast get my data out of them.
>
> dd -o loop server.img /media/diskimage
>
> asks me to provide a file system. How can I mount these images?
>
> I have been Googling around for this and have failed to find and
> answer, can someone please point me in the right direction.
>
> Appreciate your time.
>
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