On Thursday 07 April 2011 06:12:40 Dale wrote: > Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > On Thursday 07 April 2011 05:22:41 Dale wrote: > > You will need to do it in the following steps though: > > - create PV, LVM and LV on the new drive > > - copy data over > > - create PV on old drive and add it to LVM > > Contact me or list if you need help with the actual commands and syntax. > > (There are plenty of howtos around) > > I was reading the howto on a couple sites and it sounded like this could > be done. Glad to know I would have to copy the files over to a LVM > drive tho. That info was something I didn't know. I was hoping for > some magic. lol
As far as I know, there is no "automatic conversion tool" for most of these. Switching from non-raid to RAID-1 (mirroring) is the only one I think that might work. > >> I want to do it this way because I don't trust LVM enough to put my OS > >> on. Just my personal opinion on LVM. > > > > Interesting argument. You don't trust LVM, so you put your personal > > files on there, but not the easily replacable stuff like OS? :) > > I like my OS setup and don't want to have to reinstall. Although Gentoo > has never let me down yet, I don't want to add to the confusion. If I > can boot and get to my email, I can get help to fix LVM if needed. I > also keep a backup of my personal files. I could recover the things I > don't backup tho. Most of my concern is my lack of experience with > LVM. If I was a guru on it, I might feel better about it. Worst case I had: the metadata was incorrect. This was back with 2.6.18 kernels though. That was also easily recovered as all the LVM-tools, with default configuration, backup the metadata to a text-file before/after making any chances. You can then easily recover if anything goes wrong :) > > Please note, I have not lost data related to issues with LVM. I have, in > > the distant past, lost data related to issues with filesystems. > > Because of the latter, I rely on a combination of RAID-subsystems with > > LVM on top and reliable backups :) > > > > -- > > Joost Roeleveld > > Unless someone has a better idea, I think LVM is about all I can find > that would do this. The drives won't be even close to each other. I > hope I can find a nice 2Tb drive that I can afford. ;-) Maybe that > will last a while. The 750Gb drive did last a pretty good while. I'm > not sure after that tho. I've got 6 * 1.5TB drives in RAID-5 for documents and media and we have about 2TB left. But with our usage, I'll probably have to look into extending that later this year. > Thanks for the info. It did add to my knowledge and settle one of my > questions. Always glad to help. -- Joost
