[wellylug] problem mounting debian partition under ubuntu

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Tue Sep 22 22:35:17 NZST 2009


Unmount

sudo umount /mnt/debianhd

Remount

sudo mount /dev/Debian/root /mnt/debianhd -o rw,user

'rw' instead of 'ro'

Cheers,

Cliff

Colin Lewis wrote:
> Problem I now have is that any document I open off this drive in OOo 
> comes up in read-only mode.  I presume this is a permissions problem, 
> but what do I need to change and where?
> 
> sorry to be an ongoing source of probably simple questions
> 
> Colin
> 
> 
> Colin Lewis wrote:
>> 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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