[linux-lvm] moving LVM to a new box

Sutto Zoltan sutto.zoltan at rutinsoft.hu
Sat Feb 12 00:42:34 UTC 2005


>If I suppose you can install and boot you old disk in you new system 
>together with the new disk, >you can do the following (I suppose the old 
>disk is /dev/hda with a /dev/hda1 partition, and new >one /dev/sda with a 
>/dev/sda1 partition, I suppose your volume group is vg0):
>
>make backups ;-)
>
>- pvcreate /dev/sda1
>- vgextend vg0 /dev/sda1
>- move all the lv data with pvmove /dev/hda1.
>- vgreduce vg0 /dev/hda2
>- you will have to configure lilo/grub to install and point on your new 
>disk.
>
>I've done such a way but it was not with lvm2. Maybe there are some pvmove 
>issues with lvm2.
/dev/hda2->/dev/sda2

The new box booted correctly with the old disk.
Loading the necessary modules to be able to access SATA drive (ata_piix.ko).
When I tried to move my PV to a new partition using
pvmove /dev/hda2
I got kernel panic. After reseting I have complitly lost my VG.

What did I wrong?

I forgot to say that my root partition was on the VG I tried to move to the 
new disk.
Did this cause the problem?


Zoltan Sutto

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