From 582b64a7b18d846e03d5ed2d24036d566b964124 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Jones Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:33:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] virt-rescue: Freshen documentation. --- tools/virt-rescue | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/virt-rescue b/tools/virt-rescue index 4f90ab1..2006248 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 where you can mount filesystems. For +example: + + > 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 + > mount /dev/vg_f11x64/lv_root /sysroot + > 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 -- 1.8.3.1