Hi all, on my laptop I have to replace the disk. The filesystem is on lvm2. The old disk has 40GB, the new one 250GB. Of course on the new disk vg and lv sizes will differ from the old one. With the laptop there is no possibility to plug in the old and the new disk at the same time. So my plan is as follows: * Backup all data. * Remove old disk and plugin new disk. * Create vgs and lvs on the new disk as desired. * Restore all data. However I suspect that in the last step the new lvm-metadata will be overwritten by the metadata of the old disk. Which files I have to exclude from the restore to do not touch the new metadata? Or is there a better strategy to replace a lvm-disk without the possibility to connect the new disk and the old disk at the same time to the box? Thanks for any advise Ecki -- Eckhard Kosin Kaspar-Kerll-Str. 41 D-81245 München, Germany Tel.: (+49)(+89) 88 88 479 Tel., Fax: (+49)(+89) 835 844 mailto:Eckhard.Kosin@online.de _______________________________________________ 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/