On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 17:49 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > On Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:41 PM -0400 "William L. Maltby" > <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > > Unless it is an LVM volume? OP didn't say much. If so, export the volume > > first, then import it on the target machine. > > For those of us not familiar with the details of LVM, what does the > export/import do? >From "man vgimport": DESCRIPTION vgimport allows you to make a Volume Group that was previously exported using vgexport(8) known to the system again, perhaps after moving its Physical Volumes from a different machine. Essentially, IIUC, vgexport updates the LVM configuration to remove the group from the system. I *guess* it might also put some status information into the descriptors on the volume being removed so that critical information is available when a vgimport is done. I can tell you from first-hand experience that moving the volume without doing this makes for extra work when re-installing, though I can say that it can be done. Again, from first-hand experience. > > I was going to take the 300 GB PATA drive out of an old HP Vectra and move > it to a newer box with more memory, and didn't realize I'd need to do this > step. One of the *few* advantages to not using LVM. Overall, I'd rather use it in most cases. > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill