> 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 Great! Thank you. Now I know who to blame if things does not work ;) //Anders >> >> 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/
