* Brian McCullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-15 12:50:26]: > You are right. I did a bit of shorthand. > > If you have enough free space, you can use a utility like "gparted" to > create new partitions from your free space. Those new partitions would > then be made into LVM partitions, and you go on from there. > > The reformat and restore would probably involve using something like a > live CD ( or perhaps the RIP disk ( Recovery Is Possible )) to destroy > all of your existing partitions, creating the required "real" /boot > partition and then creating all of the other partition(s) as LVM. I > have done this several times on various machines. Once the partitions > exist, you need to allocate the appropriate space for each Volume Group > and Logical Volume within each group. My next step would probably > involve one of two: > > If I was really paranoid, I would go ahead with a small installation ( > perhaps something like TinySofa Enterprise Server ) to "set" the > partitions and get a kernel installed. Once that was done, I would > basically overwrite everything from your backup -- except /etc/fstab! > Then a vgscan, vgchange, vgcfgbackup, reboot should finish the job. > > The other way would be to continue with the live CD, make sure that all > of your logical volumes were mounted properly ( the tree was whole ), > restore your backup, rewrite /etc/fstab, reboot, test. ( do a > vgcfgbackup after the system was good. ) > > > Hope that is more useful, > Brian
OK, after a couple of days I have to admit that LVM conversion is not going really well. I am not giving up but I am close. At this point I am reconsidering adding / to LVM. It is turning into quite a headache. Maybe /usr,/home,/var will be good enough.The major snag I am running into is getting the initrd script to load the lvm modules so that I can mount root and load the OS. Any ideas? After I change grub to look to the initrd that I created w/ "lvmcreate_initrd", grub loads and then nothing. No errors no nothing. It clearly is not loading the LVM modules. I am using Ubuntu 2.6.10-5-k7 kernel. I am almost certain LVM is compiled in, although I must admit, I have not explicitly checked. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, H. Crissman -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
