Preserving LVM across builds

2014-01-17 Thread Brad Alexander
Hey, Have a question that I thought I would post here because I have never done it before. I have a buddy that has a system that is in desperate need of a rebuild. It is truly a Franken-box, with 4 hard drives (2*80GB, 1*160GB, and 1*250GB), and has an Ubuntu build on it and a Mint build. He

Re: Preserving LVM across builds

2014-01-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Nobody of your friends has got an external drive for such situations? I would backup all data temporarily to an external drive. Some time ago I didn't own such a drive, but after some phone calls one of my friend lend me a drive he owns just for such situations. the best approach is to think how

Re: Preserving LVM across builds

2014-01-17 Thread François Patte
Le 17/01/2014 19:26, Brad Alexander a écrit : Hey, Have a question that I thought I would post here because I have never done it before. I have a buddy that has a system that is in desperate need of a rebuild. It is truly a Franken-box, with 4 hard drives (2*80GB, 1*160GB, and 1*250GB),

Re: Preserving LVM across builds

2014-01-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 19:43 +0100, François Patte wrote: I suppose that on the 250Gb drive there are only data I assume that it's a wild mix, regarding to the Franken-box and 80GB drives. Try to buy a new 80 GB drive ;). I would backup _everything_ to a new drive and than ... depending to the

Re: Preserving LVM across builds

2014-01-17 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Have a question that I thought I would post here because I have never done it before. I have a buddy that has a system that is in desperate need of a rebuild. It is truly a Franken-box, with 4 hard drives (2*80GB,