From: Matthew Gillen <me@mattgillen.net>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Newbie of LVM
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:43:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4399DE55.6090007@mattgillen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7119d52b0512091138s5615a650q5bad1a566cbde72b@mail.gmail.com>
Jeff Cousino wrote:
>>You're out of luck. You can't take an existing partition and keep the
>>data yet switch it over to LVM. It's like RAID that way: you need to
>>set up the lower level stuff *before* you format the disk/partition with
>>your filesystem and start putting data on it.
>>
>
>
> But couldn't he set up his new drive with LVM copy the data from the
> old drive to it, provided it's large enough and then add the old drive
> to the group?
Right, I was writing a followup to this effect before I got your response.
--Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-09 19:43 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
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