[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows XP Pro with Linux!

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 08:09 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: 
> On Jul 21, 2014, at 6:36 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > If you use LVM, and make your physical disks physical volumes, you can
> > just add them to a volume group and forget about locality altogether.
> > No more fussing with partitions;  a world without partitions is a
> > beautiful place.
> I use LVM, and recently upgraded disks.  It was very nice to be able
> to just add the new disk to the volume group, pvmove everything on to
> the new disk, remove the old disk, and be done.  As far as my
> logged-in session could tell, nothing had happened, /home looked just
> the same and I was browsing the web the whole time. 

Indeed,  I've done the same thing many times myself.  Using virtual
machines whose images are on logical volume while the logical volume is
migrating to the new/bigger SSD... beautiful.  No interruption to the
workflow

> In fact, the only place I got caught up was that I had to create a
> new /boot on the new disk and the uuid was hard-coded in the GRUB2
> config (I had remembered to change the UUID in the fstab but not
> regenerate the bootloader).

Yea, booting on Intel hardware is a snotty process no matter how you
slice it.  But once you make a checklist - and remember to use that
checklist - meh, there are worse things.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA
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