On 9/15/2010 2:22 PM, Montaseri wrote:
> Thanks Les and Andy,
>
> I suppose I can ignore this type recognition if I can solve my real
> problem, which lead me to this inquiry.
>
> My real problem is that I would like to boot off of clonezilla and
> proceed to mount the root filesystem (of the box being cloned) to learn
> stuff from /etc such as IP of the box and such. This is to automate the
> cloneing to an NFS location in a proper folder, for ease of restore and
> such.
>
> Currently when I clonezilla fdisk reports my root filesystem type to be
> 83. When I try to mount this like
>
> mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt
>
> I get the following error message
> VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda2
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2 ...
> .....and bunch of other suggestions including see dmesg
The installation is probably on LVM. I've seen directions somewhere on
how to detect and mount the volumes inside them but can't remember
where. And I tend to avoid LVM because I haven't seen good
documentation on how to recover from errors on them.
--
Les Mikesell
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