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I have a working gentoo install which I don't want to muck with too much, |
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except to change over to LVM. I understand that I can use dd so that |
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everything will be in a LVM, but I'm unclear on the outline. The LVM is |
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created, the root partition is copied over to the LVM, then grub, fstab |
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and initrd and edited to reflect the changes? |
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arrakis ~ # |
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arrakis ~ # fdisk /dev/hda |
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The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9729. |
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There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, |
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and could in certain setups cause problems with: |
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1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) |
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2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs |
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(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) |
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Command (m for help): p |
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Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes |
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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders |
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Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/hda1 1 1912 15358108+ 83 Linux |
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/dev/hda2 1913 1925 104422+ 83 Linux |
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/dev/hda3 1926 9729 62685630 8e Linux LVM |
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Command (m for help): q |
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arrakis ~ # |
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arrakis ~ # fdisk /dev/hdb |
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The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 59582. |
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There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, |
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and could in certain setups cause problems with: |
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1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) |
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2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs |
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(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) |
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Command (m for help): p |
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Disk /dev/hdb: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes |
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16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 59582 cylinders |
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Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/hdb1 1 203 102280+ 83 Linux |
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/dev/hdb2 204 2109 960624 82 Linux swap / |
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Solaris |
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/dev/hdb3 2110 59579 28964880 83 Linux |
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Command (m for help): q |
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arrakis ~ # |
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arrakis ~ # date |
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Tue Oct 16 22:10:22 PDT 2007 |
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arrakis ~ # |
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thanks, |
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Thufir |
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