[CentOS] Un Installing a hard drive in a Centos 5.1 box

[Pam Astor]

>> OK when you say livecd, do you mean the Centos 5.1 distro
>> disks? I have a full set of them, a 7 disk set I got from Linux Central.
>> Can I just boot off disk 1 from my set?
>
> LiveCD as in the livecd:
>
> eg :
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.1/isos/i386/CentOS-5.1-i386-LiveCD.iso
>
>> ...or, if I left the install the way it is now, are there any dis advantages of leaving the file
>> system the way it is - spread over two hard drives?
>
> nope, just that if you loose one drive, you loose everything (
> potentially ) on the entire filesystem
>
>> Should just get another hard drive and back it up the way it is?
>> Would ther be any problems with my backup if left the way it is?
>
> Both those should be fine
>
>>
>> Or ahould I just do a complete re install of the OS after backing up my data...
>>
>> What do you reccomend -leave it as is, re configure it, or re install it?
>>
>
> I'd recommend you spend the time in learning about lvm and resize the
> filesystem down to one drive, LVM does take about 2 - 3 hours to work
> out, but once you do work it out - its fantastic and something that
> makes Linux really worthwhile :D
>
> but that is my personal opinion, you should still do whatever you feel
> like - it is, after all, a free world :D

Hi there,

I downloaded and burned the LiveCD, and am able to boot off ot it, at least
I got off to a start!

You mentioned a few days ago the LVM HowTo - Is this what you were
talking about:  http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ ?  Or did you mean
someplace on the Centos site?  I'm going through the other URL you
posted - http://www.centos.org/docs/5/, have not found anything
specifically titled "lvm how to" yet.

Also I tried booting off of LiveCD and got the below warning, wondered if
you could give me a clue as to where to start:

Warning:  Cannot Find Root File System!

Create symlin /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot sequence.

Bash:  No job control in this shell
bash-3.1#


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