taking lvm backup

[Matt Darcy]

On 28/09/10 16:20, Jorge Armando Medina wrote:

>> Since the mount command as above suggested is asking me to specify the
>> filesystem type which I gave
>> as
>> mount -t lvm /dev/nintendo/lvm1 /mnt -o ro
>>
>> gave following error
>> mount: unknown filesystem type 'lvm'


lvm isn't a file system - you should know what file system you put on
them, ext3, ext4, xfs etc.

use -t $filesystem-you-chose,

eg: mount -t ext4 /dev/nintendo/lvm1 -o ro /mnt

Matt