> My main disk /dev/hda has a non-lvm root partition > (/dev/hda2) and one lvm > partition (/dev/hda3) [/dev/hda1 is a partition with another > OS on it :-( ] > > It was starting to fail so I have purchased another disk and > temporarily > wired it in as /dev/hdb. I created three partitions on in > with /dev/hdb3 as > the lvm partition. I successfully copied the first two > partitions but with > the third, in order to preserve my volume group name (vg1), I > did pvcreate > /dev/hdb3, vgextend vg1 /dev/hdb3 and pvmove /dev/hda3 so > that all the data > should now be on /dev/hdb3. maybe copying the whole disk with tools like partition magic (forgive me) would have been better. I managed to copy a PV from one disk to another. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
