On 10 April 2012 16:41, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > Won't you need to set them up as an LVM group again?
Quite possibly. but I have not been able to find any info about doing that little action. > Theres a very > good pair of tutorials by the guy who founded gentoo, whose name > presently escapes me. > His name is Daniel Robbins. Thanks, I'll have a search for that. The official Linux documentation of LVM on the Linux Documentation Project site has been written by computer genius with the natural language literacy skill of a 7 year old. > LVM is evil. > On small machines like laptops I concur completely. imho it's just yet another layer of unnecessary complexity to annoy us and go wrong, but I get an inkling that it might be quite useful in the big server world. -- Sincerely, Christopher Sawtell
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