Once the VG is mounted you should be able to see all the LVs
(partitions) underneath /dev/<volumegroupname>.

In the example I'm looking at I've got an sdb4 LVM dd image with a
volumegroupname of vg00. Doing an ls /dev/vg00/ shows me lv00-lv09. You
should then be able to dd if=/dev/vg00/lv00 of=/images/lv00.img (or
dcfldd). 

mmls doesn't seem to work against a logical volume. I believe mmls would
and did work against the physical disk you imaged the LVM off of but the
LVM partition structure is probably different enough that mmls won't
work. I just tried it on my LVM example and it doesn't work. I've never
needed it as the LVs under /dev/vg00/lv* in this case are the individual
partitions and can be dd'd individually.

Can you dcfldd each of those logical volumes rather than mmls and
splitting the images?

Patrick 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathaniel Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 9:14 AM
To: Nehls, Patrick
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Mounting LVM image for analysis

This did get me quite a bit farther, but maybe you can help me some
more.

I went through the steps you provided and was able to browse the
contents of the LVM.  I tried to run dcfldd against the volume, but I
don't have the partition information.  I would like to run mmls against
the image, but I'm not sure if it supports what I need to do.  Any
ideas?

Nehls, Patrick wrote:

>>From here you can either:
>dd if=/dev/<volumegroupname>/<logicalvolumename>
>of=/path/to/<host>vg00lv00.img
>OR
>mount -o loop,ro,noexec,noatime,nodev
>/dev/<volumegroupname>/<logicalvolumename> /mnt/point
>
>Patrick
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nathaniel Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:10 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Mounting LVM image for analysis
>
>Maybe I haven't looked deep enough, but I figure the experts would know

>best.  I believe a system of mine may have been compromised with a 
>rootkit.  I have already taken an image of the system and split out the

>partitions using the output from mmls and dcfldd.  One of my partitions

>is an LVM partition.  It was on a SAN and we made it LVM so the 
>partition could be extended, but it never was.
>
>I have the image on a Forensic system and I would like to be able to 
>browse the image as if it was another disk in the system.  What would I

>need to do?
>
>--
>Nathaniel Hall, GSEC GCFW GCIA GCIH
>
>  
>


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