David Baron:
> What is the best way to do this? (If I simply cp -a, I might dispense with LVM
> altogether since it's services on a 1 terra disk are not critical any longer).
>
> I thought to simply add partitions on the new disk to the current volumes and
> sometime later remove some or all of the old disk partitions. Will this work
> and is it safe (i.e. the lvm configuration program will move data as
> required)?
Yes, but you have to trigger the move manually:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/removeadisk.html
J.
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