Dump/restore

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 12:07 -0500, Jesse Jarzynka wrote:
>     Ok, I have noticed that Core 3 no long has a swap partition and
> now only has 2 partitions,a boot and a LVM partition. This hasn't been
> a problem until i tried to dump/restore. As a business once we get
> Linux all configured we like to just dump/restore it to a whole
> different HD all configured the way we do it. However Core 3 is not
> working as core 2 has. I don't think there could be a problem with
> either hard drive, has anyone else tried this with core 3? It's worked
> with every other Linux o/s we've ever used except core 3.
> 
> $ dump -0uf - /dev/hdb1 | restore xf -

Can't you just dump/restore the logical volumes instead of the
partitions?

Or you could always partition the disk the "traditional" way manually
instead of letting anaconda create the LVM setup.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>