Re: [Xen-users] mount xen partitions inside logical volume from dom0?

[jez <jez@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 05:35:38PM +0200, Peter Peltonen wrote:
> On 3/11/07, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >You use the "lomount" command, I believe. Type "lomount --help" to gain
> >access to the partitions inside :/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02.
> 
> But I thought lomount can handle only disk images? At least that's
> what the help says:
> 
> # lomount -h
> Usage: lomount [-verbose] [OPTIONS] -diskimage FILE -partition NUM [OPTIONS]
> All OPTIONS are passed through to 'mount'.
> ex. lomount -t fs-type -diskimage hda.img -partition 1 /mnt
> 
> And I am talking about partitions made by the FC6 Anaconda installer
> to the logical
> volume.
> 

Are these like magical partitions - unlike say the terribly normal ones
you get with "fdisk /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01"? :-)

Nico's right, lomount works just fine. You might want to try it out
before you delete your snapshot:

    lomount -verbose -t ext3 -partition 2  \
        -diskimage /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 /mnt  
    

> After reading the RHEL5/FC6 Xen documentation through again I realised I 
> must
> use kpartx:
> 

Oops!

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