[mdlug] [WLUG] SuSE root breakin help needed

Carl T. Miller carl at carltm.com
Mon May 26 15:36:12 EDT 2008


Jay Nugent wrote:
>    Can't seem to get the hard drive mounted after trying all sorts of
> permutations of fstab.  I don't know the exact partitioning of the hard
> drive but *seem* to recall it was basically three partitions, /, /home,
> and swap, and that it is a SATA drive.  But I can't recall whether it had
> LVM turned on or not, and I have NO idea how to deal with LVM *if* it was
> turned on.

Jay, if "parted /dev/sda print" shows the lvm flag, that means
you'll have to deal with logical volume management.

This page tells about someone mounting partitions on an lvm
volume group, and it tells the steps to find and mount them.
http://www.whoopis.com/howtos/linux_lvm_recovery.html

c





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