Sono riuscito a recuperare una live e ho controllato fdisk -l che mi ha dato un output più completo ovvero:
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x516d077a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 61442047 30617600 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 61442048 62466047 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 62466048 488396799 212965376 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 62468096 488396799 212964352 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/mapper/live-rw: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders, total 8388608 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/mapper/live-rw doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/live-osimg-min: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders, total 8388608 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/mapper/live-osimg-min doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_giuseppe-lv_root: 53.7 GB, 53687091200 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6527 cylinders, total 104857600 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_giuseppe-lv_root doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_giuseppe-lv_home: 160.3 GB, 160255967232 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19483 cylinders, total 312999936 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_giuseppe-lv_home doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_giuseppe-lv_swap: 4127 MB, 4127195136 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 501 cylinders, total 8060928 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_giuseppe-lv_swap doesn't contain a valid partition table
ed ho notato questo “doesn’t contain a valid partition table”, girovagando tra le vecchie discussioni ho trovato un problema simile http://forum.fedoraonline.it/viewtopic.php?id=18098, questa soluzione di eseguire un “fsck -y …” potrebbe risolvere il mio problema??