Thanks to all who replied to this question. Looks like everyone who replied did so directly to me instead of the forum, so I'll include this for reference.
This reply from Mark is what did the trick. We are using the Sistina LVM and the Howto is short and to the point. The only problems I encountered in the Sistina howto was that pvscan found the inactive PV on /dev/dasd[nop]1 insted of /dev/sdb[123] and the vgimport caused 2.4.7 to panic (deferenced pointer at 00000000 - oops), but on the reboot, it found the inactive VG, activated it, and we're off and running. It mounted , the data look right, and there have been no further problems yet. So, if you are using LVM on 2.2 and want a quick way to activate them on 2.4 or wherever without copying every byte, this appears to work. Just cross your fingers for luck during the vgimport... Thanks again. Steve > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Mark Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "p43cibmgs-Arden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Anyone know how to take your LVM with you? > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 > Importance: Normal > Disposition-Notification-To: "Mark Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi Steve, > I'm not at work now so I can't verify if we use IBM's or Sistina's LVM on > SuSE? > > I'm guessing it still Sistina's so check out > http://www.sistina.com/lvm_howtos/lvm_howto/Moving_a_volume_group_to_.html > > Hope I'm not the only one to answer..... > > Regards > Mark Perry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > p43cibmgs-Arden > Sent: 14 May 2002 22:39 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Anyone know how to take your LVM with you? > > > Does anyone know how to move Logical Volumes from one Linux guest to > another? > ON 2.2.16 we set up LVs to get larger volumes. Now that we are moving to 2.4 > I > can't find a way to get the new (or upgraded) linux system to recognize a > pre-existsing PV/LV set. > All the options in yast are to create a new PV/LV set. > I rally don't want to destroy all my data nor do I really want to have to > set up > a second set of volumes and copy everything. > > Has anyone run into this before? > > Thanks, > > > Steve Arden > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > IBM-Global Services @ Lucent > (630)979-7124 > Steve Arden [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM-Global Services @ Lucent (630)979-7124
