Re: [PLUG] Moving user accounts - update

["Eric H. Johnson" <ejohnson@camalytics.com>]

Rich,

It is setup with LVM but no raid, which may explain why I could not see the drive.

Thanks,
Eric

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Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:

>On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Eric H. Johnson
><ejohnson@camalytics.com> wrote:
>>
>> When I ran recovery mode the root partition was already mounted. When I
>> booted to a CD I was not able to see the partition and thus was not able to
>> mount it.
>>
>
>Remounting as rw might be all that is needed.  Just run mount with no
>options to see how root is mounted already.
>
>You should be able to boot from a CD and mount the filesystem and just
>directly edit sudoers safely.  Are you using LVM?  If so, you might
>need to first do a pvscan/lvscan/lvchange to get the devices to show
>up.  If you're using raid you might need to do an mdadm -As as well
>before that.
>
>Rich
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