Steps to mount a linux LVM volume

The "Linux LVM" partition is NOT mounted in the same way as you mount a partition using a standard Linux file system(eg. ext2, ext3).

In this example we are going to see how to mount the Linux LVM partition "/dev/sdd2".


# You can check the disk that is using the LVM volume by using the command fdisk -l

 [root@xxx ~]# fdisk -l

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sdd2 14 91201 732467610 8e Linux LVM


# You can run the command "pvs" to get the volume group.

  [root@xxx ~]# pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sdd2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 698.53G 352.00M

The volume group here is VolGroup00


# Then you can run "lvdisplay /dev/<volume group>"
This will display the list of logical volumes in the volume group

[root@xxx ~]# lvdisplay /dev/VolGroup00
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
VG Name VolGroup00
LV UUID lw3n97-QEcu-BnRD-OeS8-2KdO-orG7-wIIKJf
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 696.25 GB
Current LE 22280
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:0

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
VG Name VolGroup00
LV UUID dcAuav-MX42-ixLh-sXU2-nX1s-KwIz-7rLWej
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 1.94 GB
Current LE 62
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:1


# Mount the partition

There are two volumes here: LogVol00 and LogVol01. Usually the second volume will be for swap.
If LogVol01 is a swap space, you will get an error while mounting "/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01".

mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /test

The syntax is mount <LV Name>  mountpoint