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Mount file systems from complete disk image with several partitions and logical volumes

I have a complete disk image (dd if=/dev/sda of=foo.bin) that contains several partitions and LVM logical volumes on which there are ext4 filesystems. How do I mount one of the filesystems on this ...
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Is the fdisk partition type important when using lvm

I have inherited a few LVM volumes and I noticed that fdisk reports the disks that make up the volume group as partition type 83 (Linux) and not 8e (Linux LVM). Is this a problem and how important ...
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Recover partition table for lvm

I managed to run fdisk on the wrong disk. However I was able to save a log of the terminal session. Fdisk before the accident: ~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes ...
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Paritition an LVM LV

I have an LVM logical volume (LV) and would like to create partitions within this LV to provide an ext3 partition and a swap partition. This LV would then get mounted as a disk to a virtual machine ...