I've done this now and the procedure is fairly easy and very safe. I did a
test run with VMs first, of course.
You don't need to vgchange/vgexport etc. These changes do not carry over,
anyway. A new system will find all volumes and make them active. But this
doesn't matter.
For a kickstart ins
Thanks for the vgexport/vgimport info. I remember I used vgchange in the
past, but I would not have thought about it, anyway. Good safety measure.
Thanks!
Kai
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On Sunday, January 09, 2011 05:31:25 pm Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> As I
> understand once LVM gets loaded it should find the volumes by itself, but
> will it be able to use the same naming scheme for instance? Or do I have
> to do some additional stuff, anyway?
I've done this, and there are a couple
At Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:51:57 +0100 CentOS mailing list
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> Answering here to all three replies, and thanks for all of them! I think
> it should have been clear from my wording that I want to install from
> scratch and wipe the existing OS. I do not want to dualboot or "save"
> anythin
Answering here to all three replies, and thanks for all of them! I think
it should have been clear from my wording that I want to install from
scratch and wipe the existing OS. I do not want to dualboot or "save"
anything (or much) from the existing OS. I just want to reuse the existing
LVM str
At Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:31:25 +0100 CentOS mailing list
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> I want to replace an existing 32bit with a 64bit installation (Centos 5).
> There's an existing LVM with lots of partitions. Most are used for Xen
> guests. The system itself uses only one of them plus a separate /boot
> parti
Kai Schaetzl writes:
> I want to replace an existing 32bit with a 64bit installation (Centos 5).
> There's an existing LVM with lots of partitions. Most are used for Xen
> guests. The system itself uses only one of them plus a separate /boot
> partition that is not on LVM.
> What's the best cou
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> I want to replace an existing 32bit with a 64bit installation (Centos 5).
> There's an existing LVM with lots of partitions. Most are used for Xen
> guests. The system itself uses only one of them plus a separate /boot
> partition that is not o
I want to replace an existing 32bit with a 64bit installation (Centos 5).
There's an existing LVM with lots of partitions. Most are used for Xen
guests. The system itself uses only one of them plus a separate /boot
partition that is not on LVM.
What's the best course of action here? Should I do
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