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| -rwxr-xr-x | tools/virt-rescue | 17 |
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diff --git a/tools/virt-rescue b/tools/virt-rescue index 4f90ab10..2006248c 100755 --- a/tools/virt-rescue +++ b/tools/virt-rescue @@ -53,15 +53,18 @@ virt-rescue gives you a rescue shell and some simple recovery tools which you can use on a virtual machine disk image. After running virt-rescue, what you see under C</> is the recovery -appliance. You must mount the virtual machine's filesystems by hand, -eg: +appliance. - # lvs +You must mount the virtual machine's filesystems by hand. There +is a directory C</sysroot> where you can mount filesystems. For +example: + + ><rescue> lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert lv_root vg_f11x64 -wi-a- 8.83G lv_swap vg_f11x64 -wi-a- 992.00M - # mount /dev/vg_f11x64/lv_root /sysroot - # ls /sysroot + ><rescue> mount /dev/vg_f11x64/lv_root /sysroot + ><rescue> ls /sysroot This tool is just designed for quick interactive hacking on a virtual machine. For more structured access to a virtual machine disk image, @@ -108,6 +111,10 @@ my $readonly; Open the image read-only. +The option must always be used if the disk image or virtual machine +might be running, and is generally recommended in cases where you +don't need write access to the disk. + =back =cut |