Is it possible, in LVM1, to change the minor device numbers of existing LVs, which are stored in the meta data? The reason I ask is this: I want to move a system to a complete new hardware. The new machine already had a VG named vg1 on /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. These are the steps I've done: * I booted the new machine with a Knoppix CD * partitioned the /dev/sda hard drive with a small /dev/sda1 for /boot and a large /dev/sda2 for LVM * vgscan to detect the existing vg1 * pvcreate /dev/sda2; vgcreate vg0 /dev/sda2 * created LVs on the new machine, identical in size to the existing LVs on the old machine. However, the minor device numbers are not identical to the minor device numbers of the same LVs on the old machine. * copied /boot and the LVs from old to new machine using dd and ssh. When booting the new machine it first mounts an initrd, executes vgscan; vgchange -ay, mounts /dev/vg0/root and pivot_root(8)s to /dev/vg0/root and then runs /sbin/init from the new root fs. The problem is, that the /dev/vg0/root, which was copied from the old machine, has different minor numbers for the LVs in /etc/lvmtab.d so that LVM commands running on this new root fs don't work correctly. I could probably boot into single user mode on /dev/vg0/root and run vgscan to correct the /etc/lvmtab.d on /dev/vg0/root. Nevertheless, I'd like to know if I can change the minor device numbers of existing LVs in the metadata, so that they match those in /etc/lvmtab.d. BTW, is there some documentation of the format of the LVM1 metadata and the format of the /etc/lvmtab.d/* and /etc/lvmconf/* files? urs _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
