Re: [Clonezilla-live] clonezilla live sees my flash as sd

[Bill G. <gu...@io...>]

Yeah, I agree with Les.  For desktop machines I always manually 
partition so I can just use "regular" partitions.  I do use LVM on large 
servers where there is a reason for it.

Probably the easiest way to take a peek into that LVM file system is to 
boot to the appropriate redhat installation CD (RHEL4?), and type 'linux 
rescue' at the boot prompt.  (I think that's right;  it's been a while 
since I did it.

Follow the prompts.  It will offer to look for your root filesystem, so 
it should easily find the lvm partition(s).



On 09/15/2010 03:37 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 9/15/2010 2:22 PM, Montaseri wrote:
>> Thanks Les and Andy,
>>
>> I suppose I can ignore this type recognition if I can solve my real
>> problem, which lead me to this inquiry.
>>
>> My real problem is that I would like to boot off of clonezilla and
>> proceed to mount the root filesystem (of the box being cloned) to learn
>> stuff from /etc such as IP of the box and such. This is to automate the
>> cloneing to an NFS location in a proper folder, for ease of restore and
>> such.
>>
>> Currently when I clonezilla fdisk reports my root filesystem type to be
>> 83. When I try to mount this like
>>
>> mount -t ext3  /dev/sda2 /mnt
>>
>> I get the following error message
>> VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda2
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2 ...
>> .....and bunch of other suggestions including see dmesg
>
> The installation is probably on LVM.  I've seen directions somewhere on
> how to detect and mount the volumes inside them but can't remember
> where.  And I tend to avoid LVM because I haven't seen good
> documentation on how to recover from errors on them.
>

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-Bill-

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