How to view a LVM from inside Puppy?

barnac1e · 02-24-2012, 06:34 AM

Hi, I am wondering if anyone knows hows to manipulate a hard drive that is a LVM (Logical Volume) when you are booted up in Puppy from a USB (or even a Live CD)? I've always wondered this but never asked... but it does not even show up as a partition in which you can mount to view its contents as you might just on a normal user partition. I'd like to copy some files up into puppy from the hard drive like a few movies but I cannot see them to do it. Anyone have an idea or solution?

Thanks!

rokytnji · 02-25-2012, 12:44 AM

What does

Code:

[~] fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 4034 MB, 4034838528 bytes
109 heads, 2 sectors/track, 36149 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 218 * 512 = 111616 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1              10       36141     3938304   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 16.1 GB, 16139354112 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1962 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        1963    15759360   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 3957 MB, 3957325824 bytes
61 heads, 60 sectors/track, 2111 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3660 * 512 = 1873920 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *           3        2112     3860480    b  W95 FAT32
[~]

Show.Can you see your drive there?

barnac1e · 03-10-2012, 12:38 AM

Actually, I am using a gpt partition, not an msdos so fdisk is no good. I must use gdisk and puppy does not seem to be anywhere close to supporting a gpt partition or even an efi bootloader (Grub 2). I could be wrong though.

rokytnji · 03-10-2012, 08:41 AM

Quote:

Actually, I am using a gpt partition

I don't know if these links will help you or not or if you have even looked at them already but here goes nothing.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtop...bd3e044d24b45d

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/fdisk

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/vie...b43f8b718315ca

Quote:

even an efi bootloader (Grub 2).

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64525

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/grub2tut

Though I don't see how grub2 will help in mounting a gpt partition so you can copy your movies over.

Does not look good though. Only one hit

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=0159956...%20in%20kernel