Hi Folks,
I search for a way to mount the .img files virt-install creates for Xen
VMs. Using fdisk -lu I found it contains to 2 partitions:
> # fdisk -lu /var/lib/xen/images/BaseCentos.img
> last_lba(): I don't know how to handle files with mode 81ed
> Sie m?ssen angeben Zylinder.
> Sie k?nnen dies im Zusatzfunktionsmen? tun.
>
> Platte /var/lib/xen/images/BaseCentos.img: 0 MByte, 0 Byte
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders, zusammen 0 Sektoren
> Einheiten = Sektoren von 1 ? 512 = 512 Bytes
>
> Ger?t boot. Anfang Ende Bl?cke Id System
> /var/lib/xen/images/BaseCentos.img1 * 63 208844
104391 83 Linux> /var/lib/xen/images/BaseCentos.img2 208845 8177084
3984120 8e Linux LVM
And I can mount the first partition with no problem using the offset
(start) from the partition table:> mount -o loop,offset=$((63*512) /PATH/TO/IMAGE.img /MOUNTPOINT
But I cannot mount the second partition using the offset of
it:> mount -o loop,offset=$((208845*512)) /PATH/TO/IMAGE.img /MOUNTPOINT
> mount: you have to specify the file system type
Even using ext3, ext2 does not work. I do not think the offset is incorrect
- I venture it is because the second partition is LVM (8e).
Did anybody out there succeed in mounting an LVM partition out of an image
file?
Any hint or help is appreciated.
Dirk