On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:45:54PM +0100, Spam wrote: > > Hello, > > Is it possible to use dd/dd_rescue to simply copy a PV to a new disk > that is slightly (16MiB)larger? > > The old pv is on /dev/hdb1 and the new disk is /dev/hdc and is > unpartitioned so far. How would I proceed to make this work? Following procedure to make it happen: o partition the new disk with 1 partition of _exactly_ the same size (in units of sectors) as /dev/hdb1 o dd(_rescue) content over o remove the old disk o vgscan o vgchange -ay > > This might seem odd to do as I could perhaps use pvmove, but pvmove > requires the whole vg to be present in the system, right? > > //Anders > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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/
