On 9/11/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I want to restore the whole setup back on to the HDD after setting up > LVM on it. On the USB HDD I'm not interested in setting up anything. That's > just to help store my data while I migrate.
Ah. That makes sense. > This is what I thought, > > 1) Boot using a Live Distro which would detect both the HDD and the USB HDD > 2) Move all data from HDD to USB HDD. > 3) Create LVM setup on HDD. > 4) Create same partition structure as it was on HDD earlier. > 4) Restore all data from USB HDD to HDD (excluding LVM specific settings) You do not need to create the same partition structure on the LVM. The partitions could be of different sizes and could even be more or less in number than the previous set up. You just need to make sure you care copying from the appropriate palce to the appropriate place. > Now, questions: > 1) I use udev, so do I need to backup and restore /dev/ ? I do not think so. > 2) I doubt if LVM and VG creation happens without the OS on the HDD. Can > someone who has experience with LVM confirm this ? If it was plain HDD to > HDD migration, it would have been very simple. I am not sure. But I strongly suspect it will work. Thaths -- "This is everybody's fault but mine!" -- Homer J. Simpson ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
