Re: how to copy an ubuntu system disk containing a logical volume.

2018-11-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 18/11/2018 20:13, Geoffrey Mendelson wrote: I have an Ubuntu 15.10 system. When I installed it, it defaulted to a regular ext(something) boot partition, and an lvm partition with everything else on it. There now is

Re: how to copy an ubuntu system disk containing a logical volume.

2018-11-18 Thread shimi
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 8:14 PM Geoffrey Mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > The lvm volume is something I dont understand. > Essentially LVM creates an abstraction layer between the actual block device and your filesystems. Usually, your filesystems are written directly on the

Re: how to copy an ubuntu system disk containing a logical volume.

2018-11-18 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
I won't give up on LVM yet, it's a very useful technology to have and use (snapshots is one of them), you can create the same base layout on the new disk with /boot and LVM/VG for the rest of the disk and then use `dd` to clone the content from one partition/lvm to another. if you need more

how to copy an ubuntu system disk containing a logical volume.

2018-11-18 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
I have an Ubuntu 15.10 system. When I installed it, it defaulted to a regular ext(something) boot partition, and an lvm partition with everything else on it. There now is a bad spot in the lvm partition. fsck with a read check does not find it. I have moved enough data off of it, so it wont show