On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:44:22PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > Hi, > Is the LVM command pvcreate destructive? > I want to add my entire slave drive (hdb) with one partition to the > exiting volume group. > Will initializing the drive with pvcreate destroy all data on that drive? I think but don't know so. Either way, doing that kind of activity on a disk is always risky and warrants a backup and if you've got to back it up anyway, just do the backup (or copy the data onto the existing LVM) and then do your volume shuffling. A
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