On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:56:58 +0000, li...@fractal.me.uk said: > If I were to create four partitions on the new disk (not > necessarily the same sizes as the old ones), copy the data across from > the old disks, and tell the BIOS to boot from the new /boot partition, > would Ubuntu be happy?
You'd need to write the boot sector too, probably using Grub, but otherwise yes, it should be happy. > What I was wondering is: is it possible to get LVM > to not split individual files across physical volumes. I'm thinking > (incorrectly?) that this would make recovery easier if I lost a disk. Incorrectly, yes. If you only want the files to go on one disk, don't extend the logical volume over more than one (yes pedants, I do realise it isn't as simple as that). Better still, don't use LVM at all... Keith -- Keith Edmunds +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tiger Computing Ltd | Helping businesses make the most of Linux | | "The Linux Specialists" | http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
