[mythtv-users] Logical Volume (LVM) - question

[Ali Asad Lotia]

afaik, you need to have device mapper support compiled into the kernel
and have device mapper userland utils available. i may be off the mark
since i use evms which allows LVM2 format for evms volumes.

--
ali


On 8/27/05, A JM <vbtalent at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need some help mounting this logical volume. The LVM existed prior to
> recent re-install of the OS, now I can't mount it? When doing the reinstall
> I left the LVM partition alone and am guessing that's where the problem
> lays. Does something need to be running in FC3 in order to recognize the the
> system has a LVM? 
> 
> [root at myth ~]# vgdisplay -v
>     Finding all volume groups
>     Finding volume group "VolGroup00"
>   --- Volume group ---
>   VG Name               VolGroup00
>   System ID
>   Format                lvm2 
>   Metadata Areas        1
>   Metadata Sequence No  2
>   VG Access             read/write
>   VG Status             resizable
>   MAX LV                0
>   Cur LV                1
>   Open LV               0
>    Max PV                0
>   Cur PV                1
>   Act PV                1
>   VG Size               140.34 GB
>   PE Size               32.00 MB
>   Total PE              4491
>   Alloc PE / Size       4490 / 140.31 GB
>   Free  PE / Size       1 / 32.00 MB
>   VG UUID              
> MgtbZF-YwPz-QxTi-ZB4U-bPOV-jMBy-fzO4EI
> 
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/VGforMyth
>   VG Name                VolGroup00 
>   LV UUID               
> wh17e4-mGEJ-FwMv-ESpY-7Oc2-kzTf-uEdhjZ
>   LV Write Access        read/write
>   LV Status              available
>   # open                 0
>   LV Size                140.31 GB
>   Current LE             4490 
>   Segments               1
>   Allocation             inherit
>   Read ahead sectors     0
>   Block device           253:0
> 
>   --- Physical volumes ---
>   PV Name               /dev/hda5
>   PV UUID              
> 8BiXq5-ZKdF-CJv8-qTlc-s4hI-WVz0-sb9sFj 
>   PV Status             allocatable
>   Total PE / Free PE    4491 / 1
> 
> [root at myth ~]# mount /dev/VolGroup00/VGforMyth /video
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/VolGroup00/VGforMyth,
>         or too many mounted file systems
>   
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