>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... Thanks! jlc