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Luca Da Col wrote:

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> I finally decided to upgrade my old 6.5G HD to a new 120G HD; is the procedure described in
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/removeadisk.html  a safe way to migrate all my data 
> from the former to the 120G? I mean, my case is slightly different from the one described 
> because of /boot partition and LILO in the MBR...

yes, but if you are worried, you can do it like this:
mount the new "partition" (real or LV) to /mnt
cd /the_source, eg. /usr /var /home ...
find -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt
umount /mnt
repeat for the next source.

The process is described in the software raid howto.
Remember to edit the new /etc/fstab and new /etc/lilo.conf,
and run lilo with lilo -r /mnt



JonB