Thanks! This worked for me. On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Greek Ordono <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I usually do the following when mounting LVM partitions with ubuntu livecd: > > * modprobe dm_mod > * pvscan > * vgchange -ay > * mount /dev/mapper/lvm /mnt > > -- > Greek Ordono > myppa: > launchpad.net/~grexk/+archive/ppa<http://launchpad.net/%7Egrexk/+archive/ppa> > > --- On *Wed, 7/29/09, Johann Vincent Paul Tagle <[email protected]>*wrote: > > > From: Johann Vincent Paul Tagle <[email protected]> > Subject: [plug] compromised and/or failing hardware, mounting an LVM > partition elsewhere > To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" < > [email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 2:58 PM > > > Hi all, > > We have a machine on Oracle Linux running for around 2 years. It only > hosts test apps but it has a public IP because people are testing from > multiple places. A few days ago we started encountering problems. Some > symptoms: > > 1. Frequently becomes inaccessible. We end up doing hard reboot > 2. Slow boot-up and response time > 3. When you log on to the graphical console, instead of the expected > gnome, it suddenly gives only the very basic X windows - xterm, etc > 4. No account can log on to shell (whether switching from X to shell or > when I modified to inittab to boot only to shell). This is using the same > usernames and passwords that were able to log using GUI. > 5. I moved the hard-disk to another machine, boot up was a lot better > > 3 and 4 makes me think security was compromised. 2 and 5 tells me hardware > has problems too. But right now fixing and investigating that is secondary > vs extracting certain data from the drive. Once I changed inittab and > rebooted, I could no longer log on. So my next option is to mount the drive > on another machine or via a live cd. This is where I got reminded that the > main partition on the drive is formatted for LVM. How do you manually mount > such a drive? Getting confused with the stuff I found while googling. > > Thanks > > Johann > > > > -- > Web application and database consulting: www.sagadasolutions.com > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Web application and database consulting: www.sagadasolutions.com
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