[nylug-talk] LVM question again

[Mohit Muthanna]

LVM is not designed for things like this.

Most distributions now setup LVM managed partitions primarily because its
fringe benefits: being able to dynamically resize partitions, moving
partitions around, and creating single logical volumes out of multiple
disks. Snapshots are cool too.

If you really want to mount this disk, you'll have to first make sure that
the target platform has the LVM kernel modules built.

Then you'll need to run pvscan to detect the physical volumes on the disk,
and then vgimport to import the volume group.

Only then can you mount the actual filesystem on the disk.

The LVM documentation should have specific commandline information for you.

Mohit.

On 10/10/06, kiryl <administrator at bsolution.net> wrote:
>
> Hey fellas,
> recently LVM has been a preferred way during default installation on
> some linux distros, i don't want to go into discussions of pros and
> cons, however this question driving me nuts and i can't find solution
> this far...
>
> I have a machine with linux on it and LVM based file system, now if i
> take this HDD and try to connect via USB cable to another Linux machine
> that has LVM based files system, the only partition you can mount is
> /boot, which is not doing any good.
>
> am i missing something that's very easy? any one has any pointers where
> to read ?
> All i need is to get info from that hdd into a different machine via usb
> cradle.
>
>
> thank you.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Kiryl Hakhovich
>
>
>
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