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Re: Best way to migrate disks



On 3/25/2012 12:46 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I have an old 40GB disk and a recently purchased 1TB disk.  The new disk
> has been partitioned into a 2GB swap partition, two 500MB partitions
> that are currently empty and the remainder is an LVM2 PV which I have
> added to my VG, so I now have plenty of space.  So far, so good.
> 
> My problem is that I am still booting off of the 40GB disk and my /
> partition has pretty much run out of space (it is about 280MB).  I want
> to migrate everything from there into one of the 500MB partitions on the
> new drive and boot from there.  What is the best way to do this?  Any
> suggestions?

Need more details.  Output of fdisk -l for both drives, lilo/grub conf
files, and /etc/fstab would be helpful, as well as the LVM config.

-- 
Stan


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