On 15/04/2012, at 10:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > I want to migrate away from a LVM Volume Group (2 disks) to a single > plain old disk (500G). > > Back story: A couple years I thought I might have to learn about LVM. > So I created a Volume Group using the Debian installer and have never > done anything else. > > My ideal solution (I think) is if there is a device I can `dd` from, > and I can just set the destination disk as a non LVM'd disk. > > Some output: > # vgdisplay > File descriptor 4 (/dev/urandom) leaked on vgdisplay invocation. > Parent PID 4932: bash > --- Volume group --- > VG Name erupt > System ID > Format lvm2 > Metadata Areas 2 > Metadata Sequence No 4 > VG Access read/write > VG Status resizable > MAX LV 0 > Cur LV 3 > Open LV 2 > Max PV 0 > Cur PV 2 > Act PV 2 > VG Size 146.71 GiB > PE Size 4.00 MiB > Total PE 37557 > Alloc PE / Size 37557 / 146.71 GiB > Free PE / Size 0 / 0 > VG UUID hrlysx-65nB-56Yt-VwUv-cC5O-wJIr-vjz4Jx > > # pvscan > File descriptor 4 (/dev/urandom) leaked on pvscan invocation. Parent > PID 4932: bash > PV /dev/sdb2 VG erupt lvm2 [36.79 GiB / 0 free] > PV /dev/sdc2 VG erupt lvm2 [109.92 GiB / 0 free] > Total: 2 [146.71 GiB] / in use: 2 [146.71 GiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] > > Is this asking to much?
Without shadow of doubt dd will fail. (dd must have the same format to work ie same number of blocks, same partition table etc) find . (or cat list, whatever) | cpio -pdv > /tothe/newdisk reinstall grub/lilo James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
