5.1.1 hdd access

[trashchris]

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

[devils casper]

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

[trashchris]

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

[devils casper]

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

vgascan
vgachange -a y

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

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 :

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

check first and second folders.

[trashchris]

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

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 :

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

[devils casper]

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

vgascan
vgachange -a y
vgdisplay

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

[trashchris]

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

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

[devils casper]

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

[trashchris]

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

[trashchris]

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