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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 11:51:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121108115123.403a598b@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zen-1TWPy6-0001SH-7t@smarthost04.mail.zen.net.uk>

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On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:08:18 +0000, jdm@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote:

> I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb.
> 
> To transfer I  intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using
> lvm as home swap var are located on lvm.

Can you connect both drives ate the same time? If so you can create a PV
on the new drive, add it to your VG and then use lvmove to move the date
before removing the old drive from the VG. That way you can continue to
use the computer while the transfer takes place.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

How do I set my laser printer to stun?

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-08 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-08 11:08 [gentoo-user] Hard drive change jdm
2012-11-08 11:51 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-11-08 13:03 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-11-08 14:12   ` Srdjan Rakic
2012-11-08 15:23     ` mindrunner
2012-11-08 15:37       ` Neil Bothwick
2012-11-08 18:33         ` mindrunner
2012-11-08 20:37       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-11-09 12:00         ` mindrunner
2012-11-09 12:25           ` Bruce Hill
2012-11-09 13:56           ` Mark Knecht
2012-11-09 14:37             ` Bruce Hill
2012-11-13 21:10             ` Lukas Elsner
2012-11-09 14:00           ` Philip Webb
2012-11-09 15:07             ` Bruce Hill
     [not found]         ` <509C5091.4040903@ccube.de>
2012-11-09 15:14           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-11-09 15:40             ` Bruce Hill
2012-11-09 17:56             ` Chris Walters
2012-11-08 15:10   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-11-08 16:37   ` Paul Hartman
2012-11-08 18:17     ` Florian Philipp
2012-11-08 19:46       ` john
2012-11-12 12:14         ` Mick
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2012-11-08 12:08 jdm

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