Hi, > Hi all, > > I got a 250 GB IDE HDD, and my current SL 4.4 x86 installation is on > an 80 GB one. Is there any easy way to "clone" the installation to > the new one? The current installation includes a standard lvm2 volume.
I have performed this process many times. The way I do it is: * image the drive with G4L (Ghost for Linux). It's available on freshmeat.net * redploy the image onto the new drive * create a new partition using fdisk for the extra space * use vgextend to add the new partition * use lvextend to add that extra space to where I want it * use ext2online to extend the filesystem(s) I've extended the LV's on. It's that easy. Michael. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] download]# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > 71G 22G 48G 31% / > /dev/hdh1 99M 14M 80M 15% /boot > none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] download]# > > /dev/hdh is the current 80 GB HDD. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] download]# fdisk /dev/hdh > > 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/hdh: 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/hdh1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hdh2 14 9729 78043770 8e Linux LVM > > Command (m for help): > > Thanks in advance. ------- End of Original Message -------
