On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jun 8, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Christopher Hearn <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have a workstation with two separate drives set up with LVM. I'm buying >> an LSI RAID controller to set up mirrored drives. I'd like to clone the >> existing drives over to the new mirrored drives somehow, but not sure the >> best way to do it. The original drives & their respective replacements are >> all identical in size (250GB + 1TB). I thought about using Clonezilla but >> wasn't sure how LVM would handle the /dev devices changing. Any suggestions? > > You can add the new mirror to the existing VG and pvmove the LVs over to it. > > If this is your boot drive you'll need to create an ext3 /boot partition and > then an LVM partition with the rest of the space and then pvcreate the LVM > partition before adding it to the VG. > > You can rsync the boot partitions.
This is what I figured would be best, but I have never done it before. I will look into pvmove. The 250GB drive is my boot drive, so should I try to clone the MBR (grub) or just do grub-install once I've rsyncd/pvmoved everything over? > > If you can create your /boot partition on sector 2048 and make sure it is in > megabytes and not cylinders that would make sure that it is aligned with both > RAID chunks and memory pages. No idea what this means. > > -Ross > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
