> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Shawn Kennedy > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 3:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: 'Smudde, Mark Alan (Mark)'; 'Tockstein, James E (Jim)' > Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] libguestfs question - multiple partitions in the > guest > > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 08:54:01PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > (1) You could look at tell-tale signs to see which root device has > > > most recently been mounted. Probably the simplest thing is to look at > > > the date of /var/log/messages in each potential root, and choose the > > > most recent one (since /var/log/messages is reliably and frequently > > > updated when a guest boots and runs). > > > > As in the attached program. > > Neat!! I just looked at it - very nice!! We will give it a try > and report our findings! If it does work, we will have to convert > it to Python (preferred).
Success!! # ./mostrecent.pl /storage/images/guest.img Youngest root filesystem is: /dev/VG1/LV0002.root With that knowledge, we can then mount (ro) the right mount point and inspect further! Thank you again! Shawn _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
