On Mon, 2005-19-09 at 08:03 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 06:00, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > > > Now it seems that with LVM the drives are tied together into a bigger > > > volume. I don't want this. I want to keep them separate. > > > > It did this by default, without asking? I'm amazed. > > The time it 'asks' is during the install when you have a checkbox > list of drives to include. The default now is to include > everything checked in one lvm. I'd like to find a handy guide > to moving, cloning, and recovering data from such drives. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > Would it work if you were to put the drive into an external USB or firewire case and start it after the system is running? If it is a problem at boot time only, it may not bother with the volume information after boot. Just a guess, may be worth trying. We use rsync with 300GB external firewire drives to backup our servers without any problems, but they are not formatted as part of an LVM group.
