After reading your answer more carefully I got the following idea: How do you see if I boot the system (this is a desktop computer and the old and the new drive are both NVMe SSD) from USB Linux and then just do a 'dd' for the entire drive (in block level, bit-by-bit). Then I remove the old disk out of the system. Shouldn't it boot normally now ?
Then I will create a new partition for the all unused space (1.5GB) on new disk which I then will add to the LVM as a new Physical Volume (PV) in pc3_vg group. Then I just need to configure the Logical Volume to use that new added storage space. If this is possible I think it would be a bit simpler way to do this. What do you think about this method ? ma 28. elok. 2023 klo 19.31 Roska Postit (roskapostit99...@gmail.com) kirjoitti: > Thank you very much for your time. This was very very helpful. > > ma 28. elok. 2023 klo 18.34 Stuart D Gathman (stu...@gathman.org) > kirjoitti: > >> On Sun, 27 Aug 2023, Roska Postit wrote: >> >> > What is the most proper way to swap my 500GB SSD drive to the bigger >> 2TB SSD >> > drive in the following LLVM configuration ? >> > >> > nvme0n1 259:0 0 465,8G 0 disk >> > ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi >> > ├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 488M 0 part /boot >> > └─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 464,8G 0 part >> > ├─pc3--vg-root 254:0 0 463,8G 0 lvm / >> > └─pc3--vg-swap_1 254:1 0 980M 0 lvm [SWAP] >> >> Since you are not mirroring, just add the new drive. >> >> If this is a laptop, and you can only have one drive, then I suggest >> you mount the new drive via USB (note there are at least 2 kinds of >> nvme interface and you have to get a matching USB enclosure). >> >> Use dd to copy the partition table (this also often contains boot code) >> to the new disk on USB. >> Then use dd to copy the smaller partitions (efi,boot). >> Now use cfdisk to delete the 3rd partition. >> Expand the boot partition to 1G (you'll thank me later). >> Allocate the entire rest of the disk to p3. >> Create a new vg with a different name. Allocate root and swap on >> new VG the same sizes. >> Take a snapshot of current root (delete swap on old drive since you >> didn't leave yourself any room), and use partclone to efficiently >> copy the filesystem over to new root. >> >> Either a) edit grub and fstab on new drive to use new vg name or >> b) boot from a live media to rename old and new vg or >> c) rename vg just before shutting down to remove drive - >> I think LVM can operate with dup VG name, but I've never >> navigated the details. >> >> Swap drives after powerdown. >> >> A modern filesystem like ext2, xfs, btrfs, etc can expand as you expand >> the root LV. Leave yourself some working room in the >> VG._______________________________________________ >> linux-lvm mailing list >> linux-lvm@redhat.com >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >> read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >> >
_______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
