How to install LVM partition?

[J. K. Cliburn]

On 4/1/06, Oldman <talbotscott at cox.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 13:08 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> > Dear All
> >
> > I have FC5 installed on hda and FC4 on hdc, and on hda1 I have MS
> > Windows and on the remainder of the disk I have FC5, using LVM. Mt
> > question is: how can I mount the FC5 partition from FC4?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Paul
> >
>         Paul:
>
>         In /dev you will see a directory named VolGroup00
> (if FC4 is also lvm, you might have Volgroup01 too!). Inside that is a
> file: LogVol00 (not sure but you might have more files if FC5 has
> separate partitions for  /, /var,/home etc.)
>
> Make a mount point for FC5: mkdir /media/fc
> then: mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /media/fc

I think the command will need to look something like this:

mount -t ext3 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 /mountpoint

That's the way it is for me mounting an FC4 logical volume in FC5 anyway.