Best method for server cloning

[George Magklaras]

Hei Mike,

Gparted supports the detection of LVM2 but not the resizing and copy . 
So, yes, point taken.  What we basically do is to dump the fs-es on disk 
and then dd them from the sysrescue image. Previous versions of Gparted 
created problem because they did not detect lvm2 pvs. Now it does detect 
LVM partitions, we can do the jobs for some partitions with Gparted and 
for LVMs with dd and other scripted commands (plenty of google examples)

Thanks for pointing this out.
GM


Mike Burger wrote:

> If that's the case, then both the documentation as well as Knoppix may
> need to be updated.  Specific to the documentation, the manual, located
> at:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.pdf
> 
> Reads thusly on the 10th page:
> 
> 2.4.7 mkpart
> mkpart [part-type fs-type name] start end [Command]
> Creates a new partition, without creating a new file system on that
> partition. This is useful for creating partitions for file systems (or
> LVM, etc.) that Parted doesn’t support.
> 
> So, either parted does not, yet, support LVM, or the documentation is in
> error.
> 
> This is an exercise I'll leave to the reader.

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