[Gllug] upgrading to a larger disc

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:33:32PM +0000, t.clarke wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Any suggestions as to the best/easiest/quickest way to move a Debian linux
> system onto a larger hard disc, keeping most of the partitions the same size,
> but enlarging some?

If you used LVM to set up the partitions on the original disk, then this
can be achieved quite neatly using pvmove and a couple of reboots (one
when you add the new disk, one when you remove the old one.)  Did you
use LVM?

-- 
Bruce

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