Am Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2007 schrieb ext Thufir:

> I have a working gentoo install which I don't want to muck with too much,
> except to change over to LVM.

OK.

> I understand that I can use dd so that 

No, you can't. Use tar, cpio or rsync.

> everything will be in a LVM, but I'm unclear on the outline.  The LVM is
> created,

How do you create an LVM (Logical Volume Manager)? Or do you mean LV 
(Logical Volume)?

> the root partition is copied over to the LVM, then grub, fstab 
> and initrd and edited to reflect the changes?
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1               1        1912    15358108+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda2            1913        1925      104422+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda3            1926        9729    62685630   8e  Linux LVM

I guess 1 and 2 are / and /boot?

> Disk /dev/hdb: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 59582 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdb1               1         203      102280+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdb2             204        2109      960624   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/hdb3            2110       59579    28964880   83  Linux

Why 3 partitions?

I'm not sure I get what your problem is. If you could tell more about what 
you have (i.e. how are the partitions on those two drives used currently) 
and what you want, it would be much easier to help.

Bye...

	Dirk
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