Stuart Sears wrote:
> On 03/11/09 17:08, Stuart Sears wrote:
> [...]
>> /dev on a modern Linux system is usually managed by udev and should not
>> need copying. To check this:
>> # grep /dev /etc/fstab
>
> aarrgh. or in fact don't. I have no idea where that came from.
> That's what you get for lea
Hi Leo,
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 03:45:59PM +, Leo wrote:
> Google suggests a few different ways of doing it (copy, rsync,...) and I
> was wondering which is best?
When in doubt, I always rsync. :)
Cheers,
Andy
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On 03/11/09 17:08, Stuart Sears wrote:
[...]
> /dev on a modern Linux system is usually managed by udev and should not
> need copying. To check this:
> # grep /dev /etc/fstab
aarrgh. or in fact don't. I have no idea where that came from.
That's what you get for leaving the house at 0530! :)
howev
On 03/11/09 15:45, Leo wrote:
> Keith Edmunds wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:56:58 +, 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 bo
Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:56:58 +, 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,
> What I was wondering is: is it possible to get LVM
> to not split individual files across physical volumes.
If you want to be certain not to split anything between disks, create a
separate volume group for each physical disk you add. This does prevent
you creating volumes that are larger than a
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:30:16 +, li...@fractal.me.uk said:
> if I used a
> RAID 1 device (e.g. md0) as a physical volume for LVM, and one of the
> disks in md0 went down, would LVM carry on regardless while I replace
> the disk?
Yes. You do, however, need some way of knowing that one of the
Hi Leo,
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:30:16PM +, Leo wrote:
> if I used a RAID 1 device (e.g. md0) as a physical volume for LVM,
> and one of the disks in md0 went down, would LVM carry on
> regardless while I replace the disk?
Yes. Though there will be a performance degradation on reads.
Chee
Keith Edmunds wrote:
>
> You'd need to write the boot sector too, probably using Grub, but
> otherwise yes, it should be happy.
>
Just to clarify, that's *not* copy the boot sector, but actually create
it using GRUB? So using something like:
grub> root (partition where new / is)
grub> setup (dis
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:56:58 +, 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?
Yo
A quick first question. I currently have two disks containing the
partitions: /, /boot, /home and swap. I'd like to replace them with one
new one. 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 t
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