Recovering Fedora (LVM) data for a SUSE install

Have to say I haven’t looked at SuSE since 9-point-something and this one (opensuse 11) is impressive.

I booted it up (liveCD) for this reason: my Fedora installation went titsup and I really need to get data off that partition. The YaST partition showed me the important partition is an LVM on /dev/sda3 but:

linux@linux:~> sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /mnt/
mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted or /mnt/ busy

sudo umount /dev/sda3
umount: /dev/sda3: not mounted

sounds like /mnt is busy by process of elimination, but:

linux@linux:~> sudo mkdir /home/linux/f9
linux@linux:~> sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /home/linux/f9/
mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted or /home/linux/f9/ busy

hm… brand new directory probably isn’t busy…

sudo mount /dev/sda3 /home/linux/f9/
mount: unknown filesystem type ‘LVM2_member’

All help appreciated

Making some progress on my own, as it turns out…

sudo mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /home/linux/f9/

did the trick

what threw me off was that it didn’t tab-complete the individual LogVols when I would just
sudo mount /dev/VolGrou00 and hit tab…