On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: > On Saturday, January 08, 2011 04:27:39 pm Johan Martinez wrote: > > > 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? > > pvscan > vgscan > vgchange -ay > lvscan > > (It has been awhile since I have done this; I know the vgchange -ay is > required, but I don't recall if pvscan and lvscan were required or if I just > used them for information....but I do think the vgscan was required.) > > In the lvscan output you should see the logical volumes; mount to the > desired mountpoint with > mount /dev/VOLUMEGROUP/LOGICALVOLUME MOUNTPOINT > > Or you can reboot the CentOS disk in rescue mode and have it find your > system as part of its bootup. In that case your system will be mounted > under /mnt/sysimage and you can do a 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' and essentially > get a command line inside that system. > > Hope that helps. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thanks for the reply Lamar and Robert. I had tried pvscan and vgscan before sending out my first mail, but it didn't show up any physical volumes and vol grpups. I didn't do lvscan though. I will try again and see how it goes. jM. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110108/57dc7040/attachment-0004.html>