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05-19-2007	#1 (permalink)
trashchris Just Joined! Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 17	5.1.1 hdd access hey guys, sorry if this info is somewhere else but im lost. im booting the live cd and want to access the files on my WD 250g sata hdd but cant seem to get knoppix to find the drive. after trying previous methods to rescue files off the hdd ( previously fc6 install), i was hoping to use knoppix to burn files to disc then formatt the hdd is this poss? and any ideas how to get knoppix to find my hdd? any help would be great

05-19-2007	#2 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	what filesystem Fedora has? post the output of 'fdisk -l' command? __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

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what filesystem Fedora has? post the output of 'fdisk -l' command?

filesystem size used availi used% mounted on

/dev/Volgroup01/LogVol00

224G 182G 21G 86% /

/dev/mapper/navidia_afhfbecep1

99m 12m 83m 12% /boot

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its LVM. you have to activate volume groups first.
execute this

Code:

vgascan
vgachange -a y

execute lvs or vgdisplay or lvdisplay command and note down volume names.
output example :

Quote:

LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy%
home vg -wi-ao 7.09G
var vg -wi-ao 1.02G

two volgroups, home and var. execute these to mount volgroups :

Code:

mkdir first second
mount /dev/vg/home  first
mount /dev/vg/var    second

check first and second folders.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by devils_casper

its LVM. you have to activate volume groups first.
execute this

Code:

vgascan
vgachange -a y

execute lvs or vgdisplay or lvdisplay command and note down volume names.
output example :
two volgroups, home and var. execute these to mount volgroups :

Code:

mkdir first second
mount /dev/vg/home  first
mount /dev/vg/var    second

check first and second folders.

sorry im a total linux noob

do u mean run the first code to find out the volume names then use the last code to mount them in knoppix?

sorry like i said im a n00b with linux

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do u mean run the first code to find out the volume names then use the last code to mount them in knoppix?

yes. open Konsole and execute 'vgascan' and 'vgachange -a y' to activate volume groups.
well ! execute this

Code:

vgascan
vgachange -a y
vgdisplay

post output here. if vgdisplay doesn't give any output, try lvs or lvdisplay.

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Originally Posted by devils_casper

yes. open Konsole and execute 'vgascan' and 'vgachange -a y' to activate volume groups.
well ! execute this

Code:

vgascan
vgachange -a y
vgdisplay

post output here. if vgdisplay doesn't give any output, try lvs or lvdisplay.

is all the code in knoppix terminal, i tried the vgascan in a fc6 resue window and got nothing i asume jn gettin mxed up

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devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	aren't you using knoppix? you wrote that in your first post. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

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Originally Posted by devils_casper

aren't you using knoppix? you wrote that in your first post.

yea sorry i was gettin confused with other advise

when i run "vgascan" i get "vgascan: command not found"

if i run "vgdisplay"

i get --- Volume group ---
VG Name VolGroup01
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 3
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 0
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 232.78 GB
PE Size 32.00 MB
Total PE 7449
Alloc PE / Size 7448 / 232.75 GB
Free PE / Size 1 / 32.00 MB
VG UUID PS7PsU-ufMx-uXKS-iOZq-Gq9B-JKAs-J1Mkre

05-19-2007	#10 (permalink)
trashchris Just Joined! Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 17	i also changed ur command vgascan and vgachange i took out the "a" and they ran correctly now root@Knoppix:~# lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 VG Name VolGroup01 LV UUID DvPqQg-0ZuP-bgQX-c2HJ-g5hM-nfAk-0P0r7u LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 230.81 GB Current LE 7386 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:3 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01 VG Name VolGroup01 LV UUID vBpqi6-QunR-6eEh-0oho-FdUl-7eAW-1p9zd1 LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 1.94 GB Current LE 62 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:4

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