Hi Paul, Paul Howarth schrieb: >> My thoughts were first to remove /dev/hdb, create two partitions, moving >> /boot and VG to it, power down, remove old disk, jumper new one as >> master and finally power up. How do I copy the MBR? >> Can anybody give me some advice? > > Sounds like a reasonable plan. Please post the output of: > > # vgdisplay -v # vgdisplay -v Finding all volume groups Finding volume group "VolGroup00" --- Volume group --- VG Name VolGroup00 System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 2 Metadata Sequence No 3 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 2 Open LV 2 Max PV 0 Cur PV 2 Act PV 2 VG Size 75,47 GB PE Size 32,00 MB Total PE 2415 Alloc PE / Size 2413 / 75,41 GB Free PE / Size 2 / 64,00 MB VG UUID Scg1fw-WM5q-eoj5-rcf8-AAAi-sKmV-nrWAYK --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID c3JfzP-cN3w-v49v-nXYN-whIc-b5A2-f7KMzx LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 74,41 GB Current LE 2381 Segments 2 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID K6Tqyu-jO0S-BpPC-8ob7-t7Qd-SOQ1-aK6EUY LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 1,00 GB Current LE 32 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:1 --- Physical volumes --- PV Name /dev/hda2 PV UUID EpsJjV-7Svg-cMVX-sjdF-lMXQ-ruCB-9bzrXP PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 1189 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdb1 PV UUID 0bUeIv-uudT-MadJ-WDpU-yMD0-4P4n-Suitsd PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 1226 / 2 Oliver