>>> On 3/18/2010 at 04:10 PM, Christian Paro <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not the simplest procedure ever, and I don't know of a tutorial the > directly addresses what you're trying to do, but essentially you need to: > > - Shut down and log off of the Linux whose root filesystem you wish to > transfer. > - Bring up the volume group containing that root filesystem on another Linux > instance (so you can access the root file system in a quiesced state). > - Mount the target partition on that same Linux instance. > - Use `cp -a` to copy the filesystem contents. > - Chroot into the new root partition. > - Run `zipl`. > - Exit chroot and unmount, offline, and detach the disks for the system > whose root filesystem you were transferring.
I don't this as being necessary at all. Get another disk added to the Linux guest. Format it, put a file system on it, use the document at http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWOTs/movefs.html to populate it. Update /etc/fstab on the new root file system, bind mount the rest of the file systems top of it, chroot to it, re-run mkinitrd and zipl, and you should be fine. Iterate a biit if not. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
