27.9. Accessing data on guest disk image
You can use two separate applications that assist you in accessing data from within a guest disk image. Before using these tools, you must shut down the guests. Accessing the file system from the guest and dom0 could potentially harm your system.
You can use the kpartx application to handle partitioned disks or LVM volume groups:
yum install kpartx
kpartx -av /dev/xen/guest1
add map guest1p1 : 0 208782 linear /dev/xen/guest1 63
add map guest1p2: 0 16563015 linear /dev/xen/guest1 208845
To access LVM volumes on a second partition, you must rescan LVM with vgscan and activate the volume group on the partition (called VolGroup00 by default) by using the vgchange -ay command:
# kpartx -a /dev/xen/guest1
#vgscan
Reading all physical volumes . This may take a while...
Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
# vgchange -ay VolGroup00
2 logical volume(s) in volume group VolGroup00 now active.
# lvs
LV VG Attr Lsize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy%
LogVol00 VolGroup00 -wi-a- 5.06G
LogVol01 VolGroup00 -wi-a- 800.00M
# mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/
....
#umount /mnt/
#vgchange -an VolGroup00
#kpartx -d /dev/xen/guest1
You must remember to deactivate the logical volumes with vgchange -an, remove the partitions with kpartx-d , and delete the loop device with losetup -d when you finish.
