Jeff Cousino wrote: >>You're out of luck. You can't take an existing partition and keep the >>data yet switch it over to LVM. It's like RAID that way: you need to >>set up the lower level stuff *before* you format the disk/partition with >>your filesystem and start putting data on it. >> > > > But couldn't he set up his new drive with LVM copy the data from the > old drive to it, provided it's large enough and then add the old drive > to the group? Right, I was writing a followup to this effect before I got your response. --Matt _______________________________________________ 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/
