From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n2L6c3rd029566 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:38:03 -0400 Received: from mail.knebb.de (mail.knebb.de [83.137.99.149]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2L6bgSU020154 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:37:43 -0400 Received: from tp.knebb.de (i5DB520F3.pool.tripleplugandplay.com [93.181.32.243]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.knebb.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7079370123 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:39:43 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <49C48B34.2020603@knebb.de> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:37:40 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_V=F6lker?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Mounting lvm partition References: <3068401C6DAE4922843F9D70AAB8B915@stevePC> In-Reply-To: <3068401C6DAE4922843F9D70AAB8B915@stevePC> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LVM general discussion and development Steve Lavoie schrieb: Windows usually creates partitions on an available disk. So I'd try to use > zabbix:/etc# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/vg0/testntfs1 /mnt (with the appended "1" for the partition). Greetings Christian > Hi! > > Here what I did: > Created VG (vg0) and LV (testntfs) > Share them using Iscsi Enterprise target. > Connect to them using my Windows PC and created NTFS fileystem on it. > > Stop Iscsi Enterprise target. > > Now I am trying to mount this partition on the Linux system. > > Here what is happening when I tried to mount it. > > zabbix:/etc# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/vg0/testntfs /mnt > NTFS signature is missing. > Failed to mount '/dev/mapper/vg0-testntfs': Invalid argument > The device '/dev/mapper/vg0-testntfs' doesn't have a valid NTFS. > Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a > partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around? > > I retried but instead of creating a NTFS FS, I formatted using FAT32 > > zabbix:/etc# mount -t vfat /dev/vg0/testntfs /mnt > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on > /dev/mapper/vg0-testntfs, > missing codepage or helper program, or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so > > > I need to access this data for some backup purpose. Any idea? > > Steve Lavoie > IT Consultant, MCP, A+, Network+, Linux+, VCP > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >