I was working on a linux box which had a failing disk over the weekend. It still booted, but flagged smartd errors and had a couple of damaged files which were fortunately replaceable (eclipse install tgz). I booted Spinrite to make the drive readable and then planned to use system rescue CD and gparted to copy to an identical drive. Unfortunately, the machine used the default boot partition (ext3) and LVM for the root and swap partitions. gpartd cannot currently deal with LVM partitions. This is too bad as it is a great tool. I initially tried laying out the partitions without LVM and tar copying the root partition over. The /boot partition had gone across with gpartd. I changed the grub.conf file and the /etc/fstab file and even the /etc/mtab file. In each case, the system would start to boot and then the kernel would panic looking for the logical volumes. In the end, I just laid out the partitions to match the original drive and dd'ed both physical partitions to the new drive and it worked. My question becomes, "What file(s) other than fstab and grub.conf need to change to change the root parttion from an LVM parition to a normal ext partition such as sda2?" I feel like I am close, but no cigar Bob Styma -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
