On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 03:04:03PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > Another basic question regarding the use of lvm. If I have traditionally > partitioned harddrive running debian Etch, can I make those partitions use > lvm without loosing any data? I have been reading the HOWTO at > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ and it does not mention whether all > these commands vgcreate etc., work destructively or non-destructively. > They are destructive. The best thing is to have an extra disk on hand where you can temporarily move everything you want to keep. Configure your main disk for LVM and then move the data back. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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