From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] restoration of LVM setup? Message-ID: <20030312132252.A1259@sistina.com> References: <200303111936.24376.novafire@novafett.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200303111936.24376.novafire@novafett.com>; from novafire@novafett.com on Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:36:24PM -0600 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed Mar 12 06:24:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:36:24PM -0600, Nova FIre wrote: > I am thinking about setting up LVM on my file server and would like to know > how easy it is to re-setup a LVM layout if I install a new distro. A few > times I have had one of the OS drives fail on me which required a fresh > install of linux on a new drive. But since all my file storage drives were > just single ext3 partitions I could mount them and the file server was back > up in no time with no loss of important data. > > How easy is it to do the same thing with a LVM setup? Presumably the new distro has LVM in, it is a question of scanning in the LVM metadata (vgscan) and activating the VG(s) (vgchange -ay). Depending on the distro's upgrade support that works for basic filesystems on LVs (/usr, /opt, ...) as well. > > > bjz > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-