From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Newbie of LVM
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:21:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051212152126.GA25866@agk.surrey.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4399D72B.80408@mattgillen.net>
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 02:12:43PM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> Way Loss wrote:
> > /dev/md5 153G 119G 27G 82% /www
> > My md5 is almost full and I wanna use LVM to merge
> > my md5 with a new partition from a new hdd. I wanna
> > ask if this possible for LVM to merge 2 partition
> > together while one of them have data on it? I can't
> > suffer any data loss and want to make sure that LVM
> > works perfectly to what I want.
> You're out of luck. You can't take an existing partition and keep the
> data yet switch it over to LVM.
See also:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2005-October/msg00110.html
Alasdair
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agk@redhat.com
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-09 3:39 [linux-lvm] Newbie of LVM Way Loss
2005-12-09 18:50 ` Anil Kumar Sharma
2005-12-09 19:12 ` Matthew Gillen
2005-12-09 19:38 ` Jeff Cousino
2005-12-09 19:43 ` Matthew Gillen
2005-12-09 19:48 ` Graham Wood
2005-12-09 19:42 ` Matthew Gillen
2005-12-09 19:57 ` Anil Kumar Sharma
2005-12-09 20:03 ` Anil Kumar Sharma
2005-12-12 15:21 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
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