Re: [Xen-users] bsd disklabel & lvm

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Florian Heigl wrote:
> 2007/7/20, Dylan Martin <dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Okay, here's another question that no one will be able to answer.
> >
> > I have an OpenBSD HVM domU, and I wanted to mount its filesystem in
> > my Linux dom0.  The domU's disk lives on a logical volume.  Kpartx
> > does detect that partition 4 contains the disklabel, but that's as far
> > as I get.
> >
> > I think my fedora kernel just doesn't support disklabels...
> >
> > Anyone know how this is supposed to work?
> check /boot/config-<yourfc6kernel> for CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=X
> as far as I know RHEL5 has it neither as module nor in-kernel and Fedora
> has it as a module, so it's simply kldload, reading the mount error
> messages and
> off you go.
>
> For the other posters...
> the disk label defines slices, not partitions. those ain't extended
> partitions either.
> this is a different scheme than msdos's, a bit less stupid in it's 
> design.
I don't have access to an SRPM or RPM capable box at this moment, but 
you might check out the centosplus kernels: they tend to track the RHEL 
kernels but turn on features like NTFS and possible this disklabel feature.
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