On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Christopher Sawtell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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.
So it is! The articles were on an IBM website - I think he worked there. > > 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. The problem is that if you lose one disk you lose the lot. Everything. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
