John Koshi wrote: > Actually I do have a large USB disk (Seagate 160GB) > and had considered using it during this expansion of > the Linux installation. I'm interested in seeing your > solution, in this case. Hi John, i frequently reorganized my data by extending my VG by a new disk (vgextend) and moved all data off the unwanted disk using "vgmove". Afterwards I may unplug the unwanted disk from my VG (vgreduce). All this may be performed, while people are working on this server! But I'm using hot-plugable SATA disks on a raid controller. But you talk about a laptop and an USB disk, and the device to replace is an extended partition, not a hot pluggable SATA disk. So I think there are too much traps in your case to fail. Instead I would simply install a plain ext2 partition on the USB disk, mount it and copy all data using simple "cp -a" to the USB disk. Then erase hda4 and recreate it as a plain primary partition, install LVM again and copy the data back. This is not as fancy as using LVM, but much saver in your case. After all I even think: it may be currently ugly, but it works. So may be you should keep this setup until you really need to change it. regards, Dieter. _______________________________________________ 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/
