On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Christopher Sawtell <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am planning a root and branch cleanup and re-install of my computer's > Linux O/S. > I have done a dd copy of the partitions but find to my dismay that I cannot > mount the resultant image file using the mount command. It complains about > the LVM file image being an unknown format type. > > I have searched far and wide for help, but the necessary incantation must > reserved for the uber guru cognoscenti, or the mounting a LVM disk image > file is simply not possible. > > Please help. While I am not in extremis, being able to mount the partition > image file would save me task of having to save the disk contents over > again as umpteen thousand files one by one. > > TIA > > -- > Sincerely, > Christopher Sawtell > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users >
Won't you need to set them up as an LVM group again? Theres a very good pair of tutorials by the guy who founded gentoo, whose name presently escapes me. LVM is evil. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
