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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