[H-GEN] Moving LVM partitions

[gavin duley]

Hello,

first just to introduce myself. I've been to two meetings so far,  
once in about July, the other last week. I'm hoping to make it to the  
next meeting too :-)

Just a question I had about lvm though. My Debian testing box (a Sun  
Ultra 5) has /home and / set up as lvm volumes. I'm a bit worried  
about the old 10GB seagate harddisc that's in that machine, as I keep  
getting errors like this:

hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20
hda: DMA timeout retry
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: drive not ready for command
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: drive not ready for command

My plan is to move the lvm volumes (plus /boot, which is not an lvm  
partition) to another, larger drive. A friend suggested that I could  
do so by creating new "physical lvm partitions on your new drive and  
move the lvm partitions across", but couldn't remember how. I think  
parted might be able to do the job, but I'm not really certain.

Any suggestions/warnings?

thanks,

gavin,

--
Life is a long lesson in humility.
                 -- J. M. Barrie

Gavin Duley
<gduley at une.edu.au>   <gduley at turing.une.edu.au>
http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~gduley/