On 4/6/2010 4:30 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
If I were doing it, I'd forget lvm on the new drive and just make the md devices, mkfs them, mount them somewhere temporarily, copy stuff over with 'cp -a', 'tar | tar', 'dump | restor', 'rsync -av', etc., edit fstab to mount the new md devices for / and /boot, fix grub and swap the drives. If you have to worry about growing files, do an rsync once live, then go to single user mode and repeat (the second run will fix anything that changed and will go pretty quickly).
I'm sold, it really doesn't need lvm. I presume after editing fstab the nonexistent lvm config can be ignored? Never done that...
Not sure about that - I think all that matters is that the things in fstab can actually be mounted. There is some trick to installing grub on a disk that is going to be moved to a new position that I've forgotten, though. But you can boot the install disk in rescue mode to fix that if you get it wrong.