On 31/12/2013 18:58, Shane Johnson wrote:
If you're planning on adding the other 2TB disk anyways now would be the best time as far as ease goes. This is due to you can just make the LVM with the new disk then clone the data to the new partition in the LVM. Then once you are comfortable that all your data is in place you would delete the original partition extend the LVM and file system to include what you just deleted. Let us know if you need more information or ideas.
Shane, thank you, I'll follow this approach because it seems straightforward, safe (because the data doesn't get overwritten until we've verified the copy), and similar to Eduardo's thoughts, too, so is probably the sensible way if both of you are suggesting it.
Thanks to both of you. regards, Ron