[linux-lvm] Moving Xen LV to image and mounting the image.

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Fri Nov 14 15:35:41 UTC 2008


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Chris Edwards
<cedwards at smartechcorp.net> wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> I have been trying to solve a problem.  In my current scenario I created on our SAN multiple volume groups with a single logical volume on each taking the entire groups space.  I realized that I made a mistake and did not leave room for doing snapshots.  Now I am moving each of the LV's to a new single large logical group and leaving space for snap shots.  So then I realized that I could do a "dd" to an image file (example: "dd if=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 of=/root/wdcdns1.img").  I was wondering if there was a way to mount this image file?  I can't seem to mount it no matter what I do.  Am I doing this correctly?
>

Chris,

I don't remember the details exactly, but I've done this before.

You tried mounting it loopback, right?

ie.  mount -t xfs -o loop,ro,noatime,nodev,nofsck somesystem.img /image

If that fails, it may be because you imaged it with it mounted.  If
so, you will may need to apply any outstanding journal entries to get
it to mount.

Greg
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