Re: [Xen-users] mount question

[Charlie Farinella <cfarinella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 17 November 2008, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Charlie Farinella wrote:
> > Scenario:
> > 
> > I create a domU in an LVM using virt-install (CentOS current).  The 
> > installation goes as expected and all is well.
> > 
> > I thought that I would be able to mount this file system like so:
> > 
> > mount -o loop /dev/VolGroup00/vm_name /mnt/image
> > 
> > ...yet I cannot, it tells me I have to provide the filesystem type.  
> > When I do (ext3), that fails telling me it can't find a valid block 
> > device.
> > 
> > Can someone point out what I have done wrong?
> 
> Why would you use the -o loop flag if you are using a LVM partition? I
> have no idea if this is the reason why it fails, but I know that you
> don't need it. LVs are not files, they are plain devices.
> 
> Thomas

I'm kind of new to all of these and am sort of feeling my way.  It seems 
I was putting a default CentOS install which contains a /boot partition 
and another LVM partition inside an LVM on the host.  I don't know if 
that's good or bad, but for now I am installing all guests as a single 
root partition inside the host LVM and can mount them like so:

lomount -t ext3 -diskimage /dev/VolGroup00/vg_name -partition 
1 /mnt/image

Thanks for the responses.

--charlie

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