On 18/11/2018 20:13, Geoffrey Mendelson
wrote:
I have an Ubuntu 15.10 system. When I installed
it, it defaulted to a regular ext(something) boot partition, and
an lvm partition with everything else on it.
There now is
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 8:14 PM Geoffrey Mendelson <
geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The lvm volume is something I dont understand.
>
Essentially LVM creates an abstraction layer between the actual block
device and your filesystems. Usually, your filesystems are written directly
on the bloc
I won't give up on LVM yet, it's a very useful technology to have and use
(snapshots is one of them),
you can create the same base layout on the new disk with /boot and LVM/VG
for the rest of the disk
and then use `dd` to clone the content from one partition/lvm to another.
if you need more detail
I have an Ubuntu 15.10 system. When I installed it, it defaulted to a
regular ext(something) boot partition, and an lvm partition with everything
else on it.
There now is a bad spot in the lvm partition. fsck with a read check does
not find it. I have moved enough data off of it, so it wont show u
