Mounting LVM partition - was Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

Gary Stainburn gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk
Thu Jun 24 14:25:52 UTC 2010


On Thursday 24 June 2010 14:33:04 Mikkel wrote:
>
> Dumb question - is your external case rated for a drive that large?
> From the messages, it sounds like the drive is too big. Depending on
> the electronics, there is a drive size limit to external cases.
>
> Mikkel

By a process of elimination, unplugging, removing and reseating the HDD, 
rebooting etc., I have got the HDD working and am currently copying across 
the contents of the NTFS partition (/dev/sdb1).
Also auto-mounted was the boot partition (/dev/sdb2)
However, I can't get the main root partition to mount. As the fdisk shows, 
this was a LVM.

Can anyone please tell me how to mount the LVM so I can copy the contents 
across.

Gary

[root at dcomp5 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa42d04a3

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1          13      104391   de  Dell Utility
/dev/sdb2              14       15481   124246710    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb3   *       15482       15507      204800   83  Linux
/dev/sdb4           15508       38913   188008695    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5           15508       38913   188008448   8e  Linux LVM
[root at dcomp5 ~]#
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