Re: [Libguestfs] guestfish emergency extension

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 09:36:12AM +0200, Gottschalk wrote: > Hello Mr. Jones, > > we use guestfish 1.4 This version was released 11 years ago?? > we have an emergency of Data Recovery. We restored a ESXi 6.7 VMware-Image and > wanted to read the data inside with guestfish. > > The structure of the vm is based on LVM. > > The first disk with the os inside a LV can be mounted correctly. > > Two disks a 400GB are covered in a Volumegroup. There is one logical Volume > with 800GB in this VG. > > Guestfish does not read the filesystem in this LV. > > I tried > >> <fs>add disk1.vmdk >> <fs>add disk2.vmdk >> <fs>add disk3.vmdk >> <fs>run >> <fs>list-devices > /dev/sda > /dev/sdb > /dev/sdc > >> <fs>list-partitions > /dev/sda1 > On sdb and sdc there are no partitions. The LV resides directly on these disks. > I simulated  this with partitioned disks and identically result. > > behavior without partitions on sdb and sdc >> <fs> list-filesystems > /dev/mailxxx-vg/root: ext4 > /dev/mailxxx-vg/swap_1: swap > /dev/vmail-vg/vmail-lv: unknown > > behavior with partitions on sdb and sdc >> <fs> list-filesystems > libguestfs: error: list_filesystems: parted exited with status 1: Error: Can't > have a partition outside the disk! >> <fs> > >> <fs>mount /dev/mailxxx-vg/root / > works fine >> <fs>mount/dev/vmail-vg/vmail-lv / > libguestfs: error: mount: mount_stub: /dev/vmail-vg/vmail-lv: expecting a > device name > > How can i get access to this LV? > Can you help me please? > Thank you very much. I would suggest enabling debugging to start with, which should give you more information about what is actually going on. This section of the FAQ will explain how to do that: https://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#debugging-libguestfs Rich.