On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 05:30:09PM -0400, To Ro wrote:
> What would be the best course of action to switch my system to lvm? This is
> what I have:
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail
> Use% Mounted on
> rootfs 9.2G 8.3G 425M
> 96% /
> udev 10M 0 10M
> 0% /dev
> tmpfs 592M 756K 591M
> 1% /run
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/b9a3a0e3-9f3b-401e-8f12-8d123e6e7f3b 9.2G 8.3G 425M
> 96% /
> tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M
> 0% /run/lock
> tmpfs 1.5G 536K 1.5G
> 1% /run/shm
> /dev/sda7 29G 5.6G 22G
> 21% /home
...
> And there is also 600 GB of adjacent disk space where /home used to be from
> squeeze. I already made a tarball with these older /home and saved it to an
> exterior device. I want to reuse this disk space, with lvm, and migrate
> existing wheezy installation to it, occupying the whole disk this time and
> bringing back most of the old data saved in the tarball.
I'd want to avoid fragmenting things, personally so what I'd do is:
* duplicate the above setup in the 600 GB of space,
* make sure I can boot into that,
* from the new location nuke the above partitions,
* create 1 for lvm,
* do the lvm setup and copy the data,
* make sure I can boot into the new setup,
* from the new setup nuke the temporary setup,
* extend the partition you made (remove and recreate in fdisk with the same
starting position)
* extend the group.
If the last two steps scare you then group multiple partitions together
and use that.
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