On 7/8/07, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/6/07, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > > > > and voila, its EXT3 now, with journalling. > > Thanks, John, but is that really the whole answer? Once it's ext3 it > can be put into a volume group with no further ado? I should have read through the links Johnny posted more closely. It's pretty clear from the LVM-HOWTO that there's no way to get from here to there without copying the data; unless I've missed something, there's no conversion operations that encompasses pvcreate.