[Gllug] migrating install to larger hd

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 12:49:23PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:42:19AM +0100, Ben wrote:
> It's a shame you didn't already have LVM on the current set-up.  The
> pvmove tool lets you say that all the data stored on one physical volume
> should be moved to other physical volumes within the volume group.  The
> data is moved without any disruption to the higher-level filesystem.

This is why I'm biting the bullet this time round...

> Is there any urgent reason to replace the existing disk, though?  Would
> you be prepared to just add the second disk as extra capacity in the
> short term?  If you are, then LVM will make it much easier to do a
> migration if you do want to remove the original disk altogether in the
> long term.

It's not urgent. My request for a quick copy was because I can't be arsed
to sit there while it chugs through several gig.

Looks like I'm heading towards a for loop with mnt + cp/tar. Well,
that'll do. I just wondered if the group had any magic up their
sleves that I hadn't found on google!

Thanks to everyone who has chipped in ideas. I will employ many of them.

Ben
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