Re: [CentOS] Move hard disk to a new machine

2008-03-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 17:49 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > On Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:41 PM -0400 "William L. Maltby" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Unless it is an LVM volume? OP didn't say much. If so, export the volume > > first, then import it on the target machine. > > For those of u

Re: [CentOS] Move hard disk to a new machine

2008-03-19 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:41 PM -0400 "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unless it is an LVM volume? OP didn't say much. If so, export the volume first, then import it on the target machine. For those of us not familiar with the details of LVM, what does the export/import do?

Re: [CentOS] Move hard disk to a new machine

2008-03-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 14:57 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 00:18 +0530, Truejack wrote: > > We have a 1TB disk in one of our machines that needs to be moved to a > > new server. > > > > How can I do that without losing any of the data? > > Shut down the first machin

Re: [CentOS] Move hard disk to a new machine

2008-03-15 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 00:18 +0530, Truejack wrote: > We have a 1TB disk in one of our machines that needs to be moved to a > new server. > > How can I do that without losing any of the data? Shut down the first machine, unplug the drive, shut down the second machine, plug the drive in, start bot

[CentOS] Move hard disk to a new machine

2008-03-15 Thread Truejack
I work for a government organization here in India. I am sort of new to CentOS & Linux. We have a 1TB disk in one of our machines that needs to be moved to a new server. How can I do that without losing any of the data? The whole drive is mounted onto a single file system (/software). I would l