Moving a LVM set.

Voltar · 07-23-2006, 07:28 AM

I have a LVM set of four 320 GB IDE hard drives that I'm going to move from one Slackware box to another. What is the easiest way to do this? I read somewhere that if you try to redo the LVM groups and volumes from scratch it erases everything and I don't have a way to back everything up, so do I need to save some configuration files or anything?

Thanks.

uselpa · 07-23-2006, 08:44 AM

I don't think you have to redo anything... my guess is that a simple vgscan will recognize your old disks and you can mount them afterwards.

Voltar · 07-23-2006, 02:37 PM

Thanks, I'll try that. I'm just overly concerned with losing the data =S.

uselpa · 08-04-2006, 04:56 PM

Did it work?

Voltar · 08-04-2006, 05:10 PM

Sorry, forgot about replying here. Yes it did in fact work, only had some minor issues with LVM1/2 difference after upgrading to 2.6.

Other than that it seems to be working just great. Thanks again.