[ale] How to mount LVM partitions

[smcbrien at gmail.com (Scott McBrien)]

The problem is that your physical partition is not a straight filesystem any more.  Instead, it is a container that holds a volume group and component logical volumes.  What you need to do is add it's volume group to your suse machine, then mount the new logical volumes it gives you.

Take a look at kpartx, its a program that let's you access more complicated disk devices.

-Scott

On Jan 20, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Cornelis van Dijk <cor.angela0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On my multiboot machine I have a Fedora system that i sometimes would
> like to mount. Whenever I try (as root from within SuSE 11.2) I get a
> message
> 
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'
> 
> Is there a way around this?
> 
> Thanks for any help, Cor.
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