Comments on: Mounting an LVM snapshot containing partitions http://major.io/2012/07/15/mounting-an-lvm-snapshot-containing-partitions/ Words of wisdom from a Linux engineer focused on information security Sat, 18 May 2013 16:08:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: non7top http://major.io/2012/07/15/mounting-an-lvm-snapshot-containing-partitions/#comment-29126 non7top Sun, 22 Jul 2012 08:44:24 +0000 http://rackerhacker.com/?p=3631#comment-29126 a much easier way is to use kpartx

]]> By: Pádraig Brady http://major.io/2012/07/15/mounting-an-lvm-snapshot-containing-partitions/#comment-29090 Pádraig Brady Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:51:49 +0000 http://rackerhacker.com/?p=3631#comment-29090 You can use kpartx, though we’re considering moving away from it in OpenStack at least because of these kpartx issues.

Also have a look at my lomount.sh script,
that does essesentially the steps you present above.

]]> By: Daniel Berrrange http://major.io/2012/07/15/mounting-an-lvm-snapshot-containing-partitions/#comment-29088 Daniel Berrrange Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:05:45 +0000 http://rackerhacker.com/?p=3631#comment-29088 If you’re dealing with partitioned images from virtual machines, you are much better off using some of the libguestfs tools. eg guestmount: http://libguestfs.org/guestmount.1.html#examples and/or guestfish: http://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html. Not only are these tools simpler to use that what you describe, but they have much better security characteristics http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#security

]]> By: Catal(ux) M. BOIE http://major.io/2012/07/15/mounting-an-lvm-snapshot-containing-partitions/#comment-29086 Catal(ux) M. BOIE Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:27:22 +0000 http://rackerhacker.com/?p=3631#comment-29086 You can use kpartx to not mess with offsets.

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