How to install LVM partition?
Paul Smith
phhs80 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 1 15:29:45 UTC 2006
On 4/1/06, J. K. Cliburn <jcliburn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have FC5 installed on hda and FC4 on hdc, and on hda1 I have MS
> > > Windows and on the remainder of the disk I have FC5, using LVM. Mt
> > > question is: how can I mount the FC5 partition from FC4?
> >
> > In /dev you will see a directory named VolGroup00
> > (if FC4 is also lvm, you might have Volgroup01 too!). Inside that is a
> > file: LogVol00 (not sure but you might have more files if FC5 has
> > separate partitions for /, /var,/home etc.)
> >
> > Make a mount point for FC5: mkdir /media/fc
> > then: mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /media/fc
>
> I think the command will need to look something like this:
>
> mount -t ext3 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 /mountpoint
>
> That's the way it is for me mounting an FC4 logical volume in FC5 anyway.
Thanks to both, but I only have
# dir /dev
adsp hdb lp3 ram12 tty0 tty30 tty52 vcs2
agpgart hdb1 MAKEDEV ram13 tty1 tty31 tty53 vcs3
apm_bios hdb2 mapper ram14 tty10 tty32 tty54 vcs4
audio hdb5 md0 ram15 tty11 tty33 tty55 vcs5
bus hdb6 mem ram2 tty12 tty34 tty56 vcs6
cdrom hdc mice ram3 tty13 tty35 tty57 vcs7
cdwriter hdc1 midi ram4 tty14 tty36 tty58 vcsa
console hdc2 mixer ram5 tty15 tty37 tty59 vcsa1
core hdd net ram6 tty16 tty38 tty6 vcsa2
disk initctl null ram7 tty17 tty39 tty60 vcsa3
dmmidi input par0 ram8 tty18 tty4 tty61 vcsa4
dsp kmsg parport0 ram9 tty19 tty40 tty62 vcsa5
dvd log parport1 ramdisk tty2 tty41 tty63 vcsa6
dvdwriter loop0 parport2 random tty20 tty42 tty7 vcsa7
event0 loop1 parport3 root tty21 tty43 tty8 video
fd loop2 port rtc tty22 tty44 tty9 video0
fd0 loop3 ppp sequencer tty23 tty45 ttyS0 X0R
floppy loop4 ptmx sequencer2 tty24 tty46 ttyS1 XOR
full loop5 pts shm tty25 tty47 urandom zero
gpmctl loop6 ram snd tty26 tty48 usbdev1.1
hda loop7 ram0 stderr tty27 tty49 vbi
hda1 lp0 ram1 stdin tty28 tty5 vbi0
hda2 lp1 ram10 stdout tty29 tty50 vcs
hda3 lp2 ram11 tty tty3 tty51 vcs1
#
and
# dir /dev/mapper/
control
#
Paul
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