On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > > If I'm understanding correctly, you have a host LV serving as a full drive > for a guest, and you want to mount the partitions that are stored within > that LV? > > You probably want "kpartx", which will build a dm device for each > partition, based on the partition table it finds: > > set up the dm slices: > sudo kpartx -a /dev/storagevg/drivelv > ls -l /dev/mapper/loop0p* > > and to mount partition 2: > sudo mount /dev/mapper/loop0p2 /mnt/folder ..... > > after you're done: > sudo kpartx -d /dev/storagevg/drivelv > > > e.g. I've used this tool when converting KVM images: > > http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2008/09/03/kvm-disk-image-filesystem-growth-notes/ > > -- > Kees Cook > Ubuntu Security Team >
Thank you. I will try that out. James
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