LVM on installed system in new hardware a problem?

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 23:44 +0200, Joep L. Blom wrote:

> Thanks,
> That's a good idea.
> I seldom use rsync but is of course a logical choice for this task.
> I'll do that tomorrow as I don't know how much time it take to transfer 
> ~ 100 GB.

100GB will depend on your network bandwidth.  SSH will slow the transfer
down a bit, due to the encryption.  You can add a --progress flag to see
the transfer rates.

> I assume I can format the new disk with gparted as I haven't use that 
> before.

gparted is used to partition the disk.  It also has full ext2/ext3
filesystem support for creating new filesystems on the partition.
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