At Sat, 8 Jan 2011 15:27:39 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I am trying to recover data from my old system which had LVM. The disk had > two partitions - /dev/sda1 (boot, Linux) and /dev/sda2 (Linux LVM). I had > taken a backup of both partitions using dd. > > Now I am booting of CentOS live cd for system restore. I recreated > partitions like previous system using fdisk and then used dd to dump all the > data onto it. I would like to mount sda2 as LVM, but I don't know how to do > that. Any steps or howto mount LVM manually would be really helpful. I think > I can recover the system once I am able to access sda1 and sda2. Any help? You will need to do a vgscan to scan for the LVM volumn you created. Once scanned, you can then mount the file system(s) there, either using the mapper files (/dev/mapper/volumegroup-volumn) or the mount labels (LABEL=label). If this was a stock CentOS install, the root file system will be labeled '/' and the /boot file system will be labeled '/boot': mkdir /mnt/sysimage mount -v LABEL=/ /mnt/sysimage mount -v LABEL=/boot /mnt/sysimage/boot > > jM. > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments