On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:25:47PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > >> 5) Is there an easy and supported way to convert my current disks (and > >> data on the disks) to LVM? > > > > As Doug said, and because lv are just normal partitions that are > > mounted normally, you are just asking to move your current partitions > > to new ones. I think you can do it by booting on a live-cd, preparing > > new partitions, moving the files chroot into moved env, rewriting > > fstab ... > > > > I thought it was possible to boot from live cd, copy all files to one > disk, say B (remove some of them to save space) and then do a LVM on > another disk (A), then copy files to the LVM disk A, then make B a new > LV to add to the existing VG. >
Choices, choices. You can do it any number of ways. Here's another one: If you can move all your data to one disk, set the other disk up as a (degraded) one-volume raid1. Set up LVM on that md0. Move your data onto that. Then add the second disk into the raid1 array and wait for it to sync. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
