I have a working gentoo install which I don't want to muck with too much, except to change over to LVM. I understand that I can use dd so that everything will be in a LVM, but I'm unclear on the outline. The LVM is created, the root partition is copied over to the LVM, then grub, fstab and initrd and edited to reflect the changes?
arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9729. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p 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 Command (m for help): q arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # fdisk /dev/hdb The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 59582. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p 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 Command (m for help): q arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # date Tue Oct 16 22:10:22 PDT 2007 arrakis ~ # thanks, Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
