From: Jeff Cousino <jcousin3@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Newbie of LVM
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:38:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7119d52b0512091138s5615a650q5bad1a566cbde72b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4399D72B.80408@mattgillen.net>
> 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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-09 19:38 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 [this message]
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
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