[TriLUG] LVM conversion?

[Hugh Crissman]

* Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> [2005-07-15 11:35:02]:

> It is doable, but it is work.
> 
> Do you have free space on your disk, either as whole partitions, or good
> sized chunks of existing partitions?
> 
> Do you have a "portable hard drive," perhaps USB-connected?
> 
> If the former, you might be able to do the "bootstrap" thing that I did
> one one laptop, re-formatting free space as LVM, moving tree-parts to
> that space, and repeating.
> 
> If the latter, do an rsync-backup to the PHD, reformat and restore.
> 
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> 
> Brian

I do have some free space but no free partitions. Also, I do have rsync
snapshot of the system. Your last sentence "reformat and restore", that
is what I am trying to get a handle on. If I reformat and restore from
the snapshot, how will the system know to use lvm vs. current partition
scheme? I guess I am trying to figure out if a full restore would mess
things up or not.

Thanks,

H. Crissman