From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from null.msp.redhat.com (null.msp.redhat.com [10.15.80.136]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j5KFCBq9029853 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:12:12 -0400 Received: from null.msp.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by null.msp.redhat.com (8.13.4/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5KFCBkK031622 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:12:11 -0500 Received: (from alewis@localhost) by null.msp.redhat.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j5KFCBQS031621 for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:12:11 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:12:11 -0500 From: AJ Lewis Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Is LVM safe? Message-ID: <20050620151211.GC12491@null.msp.redhat.com> References: <1119268975.25392.34.camel@volt> <200506201517.01268.krienke@uni-koblenz.de> <1119275366.25392.48.camel@volt> <20050620144233.GB12491@null.msp.redhat.com> <1119279649.18965.24.camel@volt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1119279649.18965.24.camel@volt> Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: To: LVM general discussion and development --oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:00:49PM +0100, John Rowe wrote: >=20 > > > Yes, it's easy. You just need a kernel with DM-Support and the=20 >=20 > > But this is similar to what > > happens if the partition table gets busted on a normal disk. >=20 > So the previous poster's "Yes" actually means "No". And a broken > partition table will zap a disk with an LVM partition too won't it? So > the bottom line is that if I want to move an LVM partition to a > different system I have to hold my breath and pray.=20 No - that should just work. You just need to have the device-mapper kernel modules and the lvm2 tools. Then you do a 'vgscan && vgchange -ay' and it will be there. =20 > The idea that a disk partition needs Unix file to be able to read it is > absolutely astonishing. What? --=20 AJ Lewis Voice: 612-638-0500 Red Hat Inc. E-Mail: alewis@redhat.com One Main Street SE, Suite 209 Minneapolis, MN 55414 =20 Current GPG fingerprint =3D D9F8 EDCE 4242 855F A03D 9B63 F50C 54A8 578C 8= 715 Grab the key at: http://people.redhat.com/alewis/gpg.html or one of the many keyservers out there... --oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCttzL9QxUqFeMhxURAlN9AJ43/xGvjxBRKqwdIk3OGnMPzjwsxQCgkzjc ZVYH/7z0WK+RVbkV0e8UpIo= =LiFF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7--