Removing LVM
Mark Fraser
fedora at mfraz.freeserve.co.uk
Sat Apr 14 20:25:27 UTC 2007
Mark Fraser wrote:
> I'm having a few problems that I hope you'll be able to help me with.
> First I'll explain what I'm trying to do.
>
> I have 2 drives in my computer an 80GB and a 200GB. At the moment
> everything is on the smaller drive which is using LVM. What I want to
> do is to have /home on the larger drive and to remove LVM and
> repartition the smaller one so that I can try out other distros and to
> put F7 on when it comes out.
>
> At my local Linux user group we tried to do a backup of the small drive
> to the larger one in a tar so that I could then repartition the drive.
> This failed because it tried to backup /sys, /proc and other folders
> that couldn't be backed up. I have tried umounting /proc, but get told
> that Couldn't umount /proc Inappropriate ioctl for device.
>
> So, my questions:
> 1) how can I backup all my data to the larger drive
> 2) remove LVM
I've now managed to remove the LVM partitions from my system, install
Kubuntu on a separate partition and move all my data over to the larger
drive.
There's just a few things I need sorting:
1) When booting into Fedora, it still tries to look for the LVM partitions,
how do I stop it trying?
2) I'm not 100% sure I've got GRUB set up correctly, could someone post the
last few lines of their IIRC init.1st so I can make sure mine is correct.
3) How do I ensure that both Kubuntu are using the same numbers for their
users and groups?
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