With the release of openSUSE 11.3 I decided to upgrade my three-year old computer which is running 11.0 and has been running out of disk for the last few months. I bought a new 500Gb HDD and installed it as the master drive, and moved my old drive to the slave. I installed 11.3 on the new drive. Too easy.
Then I tried to mount my old drive so I could move my account files across. I wasn’t able to mount the drive, which uses LVM (Logical Volume Manager). Is there any reason this wouldn’t be recognised by 11.3???
Then I tried to mount my new drive from my old system but 11.0 doesn’t have support for the ext4 filesystem. I loaded the ext4dev kernel module with no joy:
samsara:/ # lsmod | grep ext4
ext4dev 222360 0
jbd2 83236 1 ext4dev
crc16 18432 1 ext4dev
mbcache 25348 2 ext4dev,ext3
samsara:/ # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4'
samsara:/ # mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4'
If anyone has any ideas about how I can get my files across to my new installation I would be most appreciative!
michael henry wrote:
> With the release of openSUSE 11.3 I decided to upgrade my three-year
> old computer which is running 11.0 and has been running out of disk
> for the last few months. I bought a new 500Gb HDD and installed it as
> the master drive, and moved my old drive to the slave. I installed
> 11.3 on the new drive. Too easy.
>
> Then I tried to mount my old drive so I could move my account files
> across. I wasn’t able to mount the drive, which uses LVM (Logical
> Volume Manager). Is there any reason this wouldn’t be recognised by
> 11.3???
[snip]
>
> If anyone has any ideas about how I can get my files across to my new
> installation I would be most appreciative!
We’ll have to find out why you cannot mount your LVM volumes. Please
provide error messages, logmessages etc. - “I wasn’t able to mount the
drive” is just not enough information.
–
Per Jessen, Zürich (21.7°C)
http://en.opensuse.org/User:Pjessen
Thankfully this was an easy fix!
I was just trying to mount the volume with the mount(8) command.
linux-lm9b:/ # mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt
mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'
The solution was to go into the YAST partition manager and select a mount-point for the volume there. I was then able to copy all my files across. Yay!
Thanks for your help!