I needed to make a backup of an old server. So i booted an Ubuntu live cd. Then:
cat /proc/partitions
But I wasn’t able to mount certain partitions. It appeared to be lvm volumes.
To mount them, you’ll need the lvm2 package first.
sudo -s apt-get update apt-get install lvm2
Then find the volumes.
vgchange -a y 3 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
Now look in your device mapper:
ls /dev/mapper/
.. and do whatever you like with it. In my case:
mkdir /mnt/vol00 mkdir /mnt/vol01 mkdir /mnt/vol02 mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 /mnt/vol00 mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 /mnt/vol01 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 looks like swapspace - not mounted root@ubuntu:~# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 /mnt/vol02 apt-get install smbfs mkdir /mnt/targetserver/ smbmount //10.2.18.224/software /mnt/targetserver/ mkdir /mnt/targetserver/serverbackup/ cd /mnt rsync -av vol00 vol02 /mnt/targetserver/