[wellylug] problem mounting debian partition under ubuntu
Colin Lewis
cjlewis at slingshot.co.nz
Tue Sep 22 22:01:01 NZST 2009
Ah, this now works. I can also access my actual documents as well, and
I have even managed to get a desktop link. Thanks so much for the support.
Colin
Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Colin Lewis wrote:
>
>> having just had Ubuntu installed on Sunday's installfest, I am now
>> wanting to access my existing documents from my 2nd HDD that my previous
>> Debain install was on. I was given a set of instructions for using LVM2
>> to identify the Debian partition details in order to then mount it for
>> access from Ubuntu. These have not worked however, so any assistance in
>> being able to access my second HDD would be appreciated.
>> The following are the instructions and the results I obtained using them:
>>
>> 1. Install lvm2 using command "$ sudo apt-get install lvm2"
>> appeared to be successful
>>
>> 2. Load necessary modules using "$ sudo modprobe dm-mod"
>> got result "FATAL: module mod_dm not found"
>>
>> Persevered to step 3 anyway to scan system for LVM volumes to identify
>> the volume group name using "$ sudo vgscan"
>> received result "Found volume group "Debian" using metadata type lvm2"
>>
>> 4. Activate the volume using "$ sudo vgchange -ay <volume name>"
>> gave result "3 logical volume(s) in volume group "Debian" now active"
>>
>> 5. Find the logical volume that has the root file system using "$ sudo lvs"
>> received result:
>> LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert
>> home Debian -wi-a- 122.45G
>> root Debian -wi-a- 15.00G
>> var Debian -wi-a- 10.00G
>> This is where I don't think I got sufficient detail back to proceed
>> further
>>
>> Step 6 was to create a mount point using "$sudo mkdir /mnt/debianhd"
>> this appeared to work
>>
>> last step which I also haven't done was to mount the Debian volume using
>> "$ sudo mount /dev/<volume name>/<logical volume> /mnt/debianhd -o ro,user"
>>
>> Any ideas on how I proceed from here appreciated.
>>
>>
> Looks like all you have to do is:
>
> $ sudo mount /dev/Debian/root /mnt/debianhd -o ro,user
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cliff
>
>
>
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