On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

you can mount the LVM disk, but not by just using mount(1). i've had
to do this a few times, and it is *MINDBLOWINGLY* difficult. i don't
even recall the command set i had to use. i think it was the md* tools
(mdadm etc).

It should be mindblowingly difficult to use md tools to manage LVM's because they are for Linux MD. You should use the LVM2 tools to manage LVM's. It's fairly straight forward, but can probably be a bit intimidating if you don't work with them on a regular basis.

--Steve