On 4/6/2010 4:30 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> If I were doing it, I'd forget lvm on the new drive and just make the md
>> devices, mkfs them, mount them somewhere temporarily, copy stuff over
>> with 'cp -a', 'tar | tar', 'dump | restor', 'rsync -av', etc.,
>> edit fstab to mount the new md devic
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> If I were doing it, I'd forget lvm on the new drive and just make the md
>> devices, mkfs them, mount them somewhere temporarily, copy stuff over
>> with 'cp -a', 'tar | tar', 'dump | restor', 'rsync -av', etc.,
>> edit fstab to mount the new md devices for / and /boot,
>If I were doing it, I'd forget lvm on the new drive and just make the md
>devices, mkfs them, mount them somewhere temporarily, copy stuff over
>with 'cp -a', 'tar | tar', 'dump | restor', 'rsync -av', etc.,
>edit fstab to mount the new md devices for / and /boot, fix grub and
>swap the drives.
On 4/6/2010 3:02 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> Even if there is a way to do a live migration, it's probably faster and
>> safer to just build a new raid with or without lvm and copy the stuff
>> over. You'll just have to reinstall grub on the new disks to make them
>> boot.
>
> It needn't be live
>Should work:)
Crap, forgot about the size difference, I can't online resize ext3 down
to occupy less space:/
Bah, I'll just redeploy...
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>Even if there is a way to do a live migration, it's probably faster and
>safer to just build a new raid with or without lvm and copy the stuff
>over. You'll just have to reinstall grub on the new disks to make them
>boot.
It needn't be live, I just haven't seen an app like clonezilla that can
On 4/6/2010 1:54 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> I have a server with a stock install scheme with the exception that /boot and
> / are on two md raid 1 mirrors over two discs.
>
> I need to remove those two large discs and replace them with smaller discs.
>
> Given the lvm over md, and big to small s
I have a server with a stock install scheme with the exception that /boot and
/ are on two md raid 1 mirrors over two discs.
I need to remove those two large discs and replace them with smaller discs.
Given the lvm over md, and big to small scenario, anyone know any automated
app that can do this
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