[SOLVED] mounting drive

[autotron]

I am not sure it this is the right forum to post this if not please move
I recently had an issue with a segmentation fault so the primary drive was useless to me so I swapped the primary and secondary and re installed in hope that I could mount the secondary drive and recover some much needed files, I being a extreme newbie to this did some reading and found what I thought where some simple instructions on mounting this drive, mostly it worked, I could mount the first partition but not the second, the first did not contain anything useful for me and no matter how hard I tried I weas unable to mount the second, it would either say it was already mounted or busy or alternatly if I tried umounting it would say not mounted, here is part of my putty session.

[root@server /]# fdisk -l /dev/hdb
 
Disk /dev/hdb: 40.9 GB, 40982151168 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hdb2              14        4982    39913492+  8e  Linux LVM
[root@server /]# mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/hdb2
mount: /dev/hdb2 already mounted or /mnt/hdb2 busy
[root@server /]# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1
[root@server /]# cd mnt
[root@server mnt]# dir
hdb1  hdb2
[root@server mnt]# cd hdb1
[root@server hdb1]# dir
config-2.6.18-53.el5  grub  initrd-2.6.18-53.el5.img  lost+found  message  symvers-2.6.18-53.el5.gz  System.map-2.6.18-53.el5  vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.el5
[root@server hdb1]# cd ..
[root@server mnt]# cd hdb2
[root@server hdb2]# dir
[root@server hdb2]# cd ..
[root@server mnt]# cd ..
[root@server /]# umount /dev/hdb2
umount: /dev/hdb2: not mounted
[root@server /]# mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/hdb2
mount: /dev/hdb2 already mounted or /mnt/hdb2 busy
[root@server /]#

Am I doing something wrong? or is there another way around this? it would be great if I could get on that partition and retrieve these files, any help would be appreciated, thank you

[devils casper]

Second partition is LVM. Execute this

lvdisplay
vgscan --mknodes 
vgchange -ay 
lvscan

Create mount point ( folder ) for each volume and use mount command to mount those.

In case you have any problem/error, post output of above commands here.

[autotron]

got it mounted, but now cant seem to find what I was looking for, does any one know what directoy phpmyadmin stores database files in?

[yancek]

phpMyAdmin is used to manage mysql databases which are usually under directory /var/lib/mysql.

[autotron]

Perfect, found it and all intact thank you all for your help and bearing with my newbie questions

[devils casper]

Glad to help you !
Do start a new thread if you have any other question.