Re: [linux-lvm] Mounting lvm partition

[Christian Völker <chrischan knebb de>]

Steve Lavoie schrieb:
Windows usually creates partitions on an available disk. So I'd try to use
> zabbix:/etc# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/vg0/testntfs1 /mnt (with the
appended "1" for the partition).

Greetings

Christian


> Hi!
> 
> Here what I did:
> Created VG (vg0) and LV (testntfs)
> Share them using Iscsi Enterprise target.
> Connect to them using my Windows PC and created NTFS fileystem on it.
> 
> Stop Iscsi Enterprise target.
> 
> Now I am trying to mount this partition on the Linux system.
> 
> Here what is happening when I tried to mount it.
> 
> zabbix:/etc# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/vg0/testntfs /mnt
> NTFS signature is missing.
> Failed to mount '/dev/mapper/vg0-testntfs': Invalid argument
> The device '/dev/mapper/vg0-testntfs' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
> Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
> partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?
> 
> I retried but instead of creating a NTFS FS, I formatted using FAT32
> 
> zabbix:/etc# mount -t vfat /dev/vg0/testntfs /mnt
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/mapper/vg0-testntfs,
>       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>       dmesg | tail  or so
> 
> 
> I need to access this data for some backup purpose. Any idea?
> 
> Steve Lavoie
> IT Consultant, MCP, A+, Network+, Linux+, VCP
> 
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