Mounting lvm2 manually
Last modified on July 24, 2026 • 1 min read • 33 wordsLVM2 is a technology that I need to deal with consciously infrequently enough to never remember its commands even though I use LVM2 daily (under the hood of my OS).
All commands as sudo:
vgscan (--mknodes)
vgchange -ay (volumegroupname)
(lvdisplay or lvs or ls -l /dev/volumegroupname/)
mkdir -vp $PATH/{home,root} (to make a moint point)
mount /dev/volumegroupname/home $PATH/home
mount /dev/volumegroupname/root $PATH/root
(ls -al $PATH/home)