[ale] Loopback mounting of disk images with LVM

[Brian Pitts]

On 09/20/2009 09:47 PM, Asher Vilensky wrote:
> I'm not sure what you're trying to do.  If you have a vmdk file, can't
> you simply fire up (start) a VM and mount the lvm?  Why try to yank info
> from a flat file?

Hi Asher,

I think there are lots of reasons accessing a filesystem without running
a VM would be handy. In this case, I needed to mount the filesystem to
run "vmware-vdiskmanager -p" on it before running "vmware-vdiskmanager
-k" on the disk image.

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All the best,
Brian Pitts