On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 13:25 +0100, Mark Fraser wrote: > I'm having a few problems that I hope you'll be able to help me with. First > I'll explain what I'm trying to do. > > I have 2 drives in my computer an 80GB and a 200GB. At the moment > everything is on the smaller drive which is using LVM. What I want to do is > to have /home on the larger drive and to remove LVM and repartition the > smaller one so that I can try out other distros and to put F7 on when it > comes out. > > At my local Linux user group we tried to do a backup of the small drive to > the larger one in a tar so that I could then repartition the drive. This > failed because it tried to backup /sys, /proc and other folders that > couldn't be backed up. I have tried umounting /proc, but get told that > Couldn't umount /proc Inappropriate ioctl for device. > > So, my questions: > 1) how can I backup all my data to the larger drive > 2) remove LVM > > If you research the archives for this list, I did a similar thing just a few months ago. One of the kind folks here provided all the information and it went smoothly. If you do not remove LVM, but instead create a new LVM for the large drive, then you can use LVM on the smaller drive to set it up (I think, remember I am somewhat of a noobie here). But if you research the archive I think you will find what you need. Unfortunately I didn't save the thread, so I can't point you straight to it. Regards, Les H
