Because my Thinkpad X200 has finally, after just under 3 years, decided to give up the ghost via a FAN ERROR and refusal to start (POST beeps & auto-shutdown), I'm now faced with the task of recovering all the data on the drive (about 120G) across multiple partitions.
Here's the drive layout, as per cfdisk:
cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.17.2)
Disk Drive: /dev/sdb
Size: 160041885696 bytes, 160.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 19457
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
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sdb1 Primary NTFS [^B] 26214.44 *
sdb2 Boot Primary Linux ext3 209.72 *
Logical Free Space 3.68 *
sdb5 Logical Linux ext3 [HOME] 106043.70 *
sdb6 NC Logical Linux LVM 20970.48 *
Logical Free Space 1.09 *
sdb4 Primary Compaq diagnostics 6595.71 *
Unusable 0.49 *
So, under a Fedora 13 LiveCD, the /boot (sdb2) and /home (sdb5) partitions automounted, along with the WinXP (sdb1) partition. But the root partition (/, part of sdb6) would not as it's part of a LVM. After a quick burst of googling, I found this solution, which digests down to simply this:
yum install lvm2 -y; # install support for lvm2 pvscan # scan vol groups vgchange vg_x2lappy -a y # mark your vol group active lvscan # scan for logical volumes mkdir /media/sdb6 # create a mount point mount /dev/vg_x2lappy/lv_root /media/sdb6/ # mount the lv cd /media/sdb6/; ls -la # take off every zig!
