[Gllug] still wondering about lvm

[Nix]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Bruce Richardson stipulated:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:39:39PM +0000, Ken wrote:
>> Yea - and if the original machine won't boot is the VG knackered? In 
>> other words if i can't do a vgexport on the original is that a total 
>> terminal situation?
> 
> No, but the vgexport is safer.

The principal advantage of vgexport if you're moving an entire VG to
another machine is that if the VG name collides with the name of a VG on
the other machine, It won't cause any conflicts and you can rename it
safely, because vgscan ignores exported VGs.

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