[H-GEN] Moving LVM partitions

[gavin duley]

On 8 Dec 2006, at 07:38, Matthew Brecknell wrote:

> gavin duley:
>> 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.
>
> Parted might work, and would be one of the quicker methods, though  
> I've
> never tried it. You may even find that dd(1) does the job.
>
> Here's one approach:
>
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/removeadisk.html

Thanks for the suggestions (on and off list). Hopefully I'll get a  
chance to try this out before the next HUMBUG meeting. It'll partly  
be the challenge of trying to dredge up an old spare harddisc that  
still works.

thanks,

gavin,

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Gavin Duley
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