easiest way to replace hard drive?

[Aldo Foot]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
<mjc at avtechpulse.com> wrote:
>> I would think you would need to do a lvreduce and possibly a vgreduce to
>> get the data portion of the drive under 80GB. From there I think a 'dd'
>> would work just fine.
>
> With a resize2fs first, I guess...
>
> Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions, everyone!
>
> It looks like a minefield, so I'm going to do a fresh install and copy what
> I need. That way I can fall back to my old hard drive, if need be.
>
> - Mike
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