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Mounting logical volumes

To mount logical volumes when booting from live CD or if not mounted in rescue mode use:

Find out logical volumes available using
lvm vgscan or

lvm vgdisplay or

lvm vgs
Activate the Logical volumes inside Volumegroups using
lvm vgchange -a y <VolGroupname>

This creates devices in '/dev/<VolGroupname>/' using which we can mount the logical volumes.

After work is over, umount the logical volumes and use 'lvm vgchange -a n <VolGroupname> to deactivate the volume group.

Note: This can also be done using direct commands 'vgscan' and 'vgchange', without using 'lvm' prefix.

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