unknown filesystem type `lvm2pv`

[webmastadj]

I have a problem, I can't get my old hard drive to mount. I can see the drive when I run fdisk -l (/dev/sdb). But I can't mount the filesystem saying lvm2pv is an unknown file system. I have googled it and have tried everything. Still no good.

[stoat]

Hello webmastadj,

I don't know what you've tried. But have you tried mounting the logical volumes inside the physical volume?Howto mount a logical volume (LVM) (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=165808) by tboxThat HOWTO is a little old, but the idea should still work. Basically, you identify the volume groups and logical volumes, activate the volume group, and then mount the logical volume by its device mapper device name.

[webmastadj]

I found a way around the problem. I had an issue with my VMWare server so I just created another Virtual Machine using the hard drive image, booted from it, and then hand copy and pasted the information.

Thanks for the help though.