Uppsss I think this goes more and more advanced all the time but here I go .... more doubts On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Ted Miller <tedlists at sbcglobal.net> wrote: > If I were in your position, I think I would: > * Create a new, 80GB disk using VMWare > Not problem at all > * Partition that disk into your /boot and LVM partitions > How I do that out of the box? I mean should I mount that disk in the VM and partition from there, right? > * pvcreate > * vgcreate > Ok, create physical volume and volume group > * lvcreate the disk structure you want in your new disk, making sure all > LVs are at least a little bigger than the old ones. > Here I get lost, what structure should I create here? I only have one LV lv_root you mean create the same and of course bigger than the old one, right? > * use dd to copy disks from old drives to corresponding old drives > And here I declare myself complete lost, this is the first time I see this command and don't know how to use it > * use resize2fs to expand your file system to the full size of each of the > LVs you created. > * detach old virtual disk from your VM > * reboot, and see if you succeeded > > If I forgot something here, hopefully someone else will chime in. The > idea is to dump your corrupted LVM structure without loosing its content. >