[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows XP Pro with Linux!

[Aaron Kulkis]

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.  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).
>

Now that you're using LVM, make absolutely sure that you do backups
frequently AND that you test that you can recover from scrambled LVM data.