[Gllug] moving system from one disc to another

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 01:04:50PM +0000, James Hawtin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 07:29:38PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > Not had a problem with root on LVM.  What are the issues you see?
> 
> People extend the volume group onto a another disk accessed by a different
> controller the initrd is not updated, and then the incomplete volume group
> will not mount and the computer will not run enough to fix and it

This seems to be a case of "doctor, it hurts when I stamp on my own
foot".  On the other hand you have the flexibility of being able to
easily resize your root partition if you run out of space.

> Boot disks for virtually any distro will mount a physical partition however
> you need the right version of LVM, to activate it.

I've not encountered this, unless you mean LVM1 which nobody has used
for years.  In libguestfs we routinely access multiple different LVM2
instances created by multiple operating systems, and I've not seen any
versioning problems.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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