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 I've now managed to remove the LVM partitions from my system, install Kubuntu on a separate partition and move all my data over to the larger drive. There's just a few things I need sorting: 1) When booting into Fedora, it still tries to look for the LVM partitions, how do I stop it trying? 2) I'm not 100% sure I've got GRUB set up correctly, could someone post the last few lines of their IIRC init.1st so I can make sure mine is correct. 3) How do I ensure that both Kubuntu are using the same numbers for their users and groups?
