[SLL] [herber at thing.com: Re: unable to mount old drive when it's secondary]

[Ana]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 02:41:45PM -0700, Rob Smith wrote:
> On 10/18/07, Ana <christiana at hipointcoffee.com> wrote:
> > When I ran 'fdisk -l' I saw that sdb and another device I would never
> > have know to look for: "/dev/dm-0", both point to the same device.  I
> > was utterly shocked and confused.  haha.  In the fdisk listing below you
> > can see that the partition info for both sdb and dm-0 are the same
> > except for the device names.
> 
> DM tends to be Device Mapper, also known as LVM.
> 
> Wouldn't explain the vfat partition
> 
> ~Rob

I don't know a thing about LVM.  I wouldn't know what to look for.  I am
able to mount the vfat partion through this interface though.

mount -t vfat /dev/dm-2 /mnt/

It works.  Is that surprising?

- Ana