From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ii2Ad-0007Dl-N1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:14:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9H62gh3009925; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:02:42 GMT Received: from mgw-ext14.nokia.com (smtp.nokia.com [131.228.20.173]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9H5vArJ000444 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:57:11 GMT Received: from esebh107.NOE.Nokia.com (esebh107.ntc.nokia.com [172.21.143.143]) by mgw-ext14.nokia.com (Switch-3.2.5/Switch-3.2.5) with ESMTP id l9H5ud2B003742 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:57:08 +0300 Received: from esebh103.NOE.Nokia.com ([172.21.143.33]) by esebh107.NOE.Nokia.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:57:03 +0300 Received: from esebh102.NOE.Nokia.com ([172.21.138.183]) by esebh103.NOE.Nokia.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:57:02 +0300 Received: from duprn003-102152.europe.nokia.com ([172.25.102.152]) by esebh102.NOE.Nokia.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:57:02 +0300 From: Dirk Heinrichs Organization: Capgemini Deutschland GmbH To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] migrating to LVM Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:56:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8711517.YOaZhqESUz"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200710170757.02107.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Oct 2007 05:57:02.0688 (UTC) FILETIME=[89FC8600:01C81082] X-Nokia-AV: Clean X-Archives-Salt: 627f5062-6795-49b2-bf84-0a5bcd84fda0 X-Archives-Hash: 70cb9fffc5bdfbe0f2cb1574e2da5eda --nextPart8711517.YOaZhqESUz Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 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=20 (Logical Volume)? > the root partition is copied over to the LVM, then grub, fstab=20 > and initrd and edited to reflect the changes? > > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders > Units =3D cylinders of 16065 * 512 =3D 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 =3D cylinders of 1008 * 512 =3D 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= =20 you have (i.e. how are the partitions on those two drives used currently)=20 and what you want, it would be much easier to help. Bye... Dirk =2D-=20 Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: dirk.heinrichs@capgemini.com Wanheimerstra=C3=9Fe 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 D=C3=BCsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net --nextPart8711517.YOaZhqESUz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHFaQu8NVtnsLkZ7sRAqHiAKCCtLHIaQ6uQBbPyp6B5oJ2qA5CsgCgqB8m CvQxKlS+8BKtRJEE4syFA18= =8gXE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8711517.YOaZhqESUz-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list