slug On 15/04/2012, at 11:36 AM, Simon Males wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:59 PM, James Linder <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 > > Wouldn't that copy things like /proc and /sys ?
Don't give up your day job james! indeed! sorry. Edit list to have ONLY /proc and /sys (no other files) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
