Hi everyone

We're working on Oracle Enterprise Linux, but I'm posting here because of the similarities to RedHat.

I've been given a hard drive (in reality its a virtual hard drive) with an LVM volume group on it, quite simply I need to get the data off one of the physical volumes in the group.

The situation is this, I've created another Linux install and added the LVM disc to it so that I can at least get to the data and what I see is;


#lvscan
ACTIVE /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 [15.22 GB]inherit
ACTIVE /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01 [768.00 MB] inherit


and

#pvscan
PV /dev/sdb3 VG VolGroup01 lvm2 [15.00 GB / 0 free]
PV /dev/sdb2 VG VolGroup01 lvm2 [288.00 GB / 0 free]
PV /dev/sdb1 VG VolGroup01 lvm2 [704.00 MB / 0 free]


Now, I can mount /dev/sdb1, which is the boot partition, but the one I really need access to is /dev/sdb3.

When I try and mount that I get;

mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Which of course I can't do, as lvm2 is not a valid filesystem for mount -t

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

John