On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Clint Byrum <[email protected]> wrote: > > These are just the symlinks to the device nodes. If you look in > /dev/mapper, you'll see type "b" files nintendo-lvm1, nintendo-lvm2, > etc.
Yes I saw this is there. > These block devices have their size defined by LVM, which you can > see in 'lvdisplay' from above as "LV Size". Yes > Do they have filesystems on them? Yes > For each one, try something like: > > mount /dev/nintendo/lvm4 /mnt -o ro These filesystems are used to install Guest OSeS. So the filesystems are active. Do I need to shutdown the Operating Systems on these LVMs. Each LVM holds one Guest OS. It is a virtualization setup. > If it has a filesystem on it, that should detect it, and mount it > readonly, and you should be able to back up only what is *used* on > the volume, not the whole thing. Then just use whatever your favorite > backup method is. Ok.Do I not need to know the type of filesystem in these cases. -- Tapas -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
