changing a drive

[Colin Law]

On 25 August 2012 07:45, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/25/2012 02:17 AM, Colin Law wrote:
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>> On 25 August 2012 02:22, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/24/2012 04:40 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Friday 24 August 2012 04:39:01 Ric Moore did opine:
>>>>
>>>>> On 08/24/2012 01:36 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tim Hanson wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now I have a new, larger usb drive on which I would like to copy
>>>>>>> /home.  I am accustomed to another distro that has a graphical
>>>>>>> partition manager which gets the UUID set up properly and takes care
>>>>>>> of all the details.  I have seen the disk utility provided with
>>>>>>> Ubuntu and I don't see a partition manager.  Where do I find it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Try gparted (ftom the package with the same name), it should do the
>>>>>> job.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I was about to ask the same question. gparted is kinda brass knuckles.
>>>>> Is there something a little bit "kinder" for an old fart? Thanx! Ric
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I always use it, its the one disk tool that has never lied to me.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On my server box, running Proxmox which is Debian-server based, I had two
>>> IDE drives, one master and the other slave for data. Then I just
>>> installed a
>>> 500 GIG SATA drive, formatted with the very same proxmox install. So the
>>> NEW
>>> master has sda2 (sda1=boot) as an LVM volume named "pve". So does the old
>>> master IDE drive. Since the label is the same, how do I mount the old IDE
>>> master drive LVM partition (/dev/sdb2) named "pve" to the new SATA drive
>>> (/dev/sda2) to say the /opt directory, command line style?? This is a
>>> headless server so I'm using ssh to access it.
>>>
>>> I've never had to dink with LVM before. Any help would be greatly
>>> appreciated. Ric
>>
>>
>> Ric, should you not start a new thread for this? it does not seem to
>> be much related to the OP's question.
>
>
> I changed a drive. And some of the suggestions to use dd might be the
> answer. I just want to make sure I identify the drives properly. But, they
> both have the same name. Ric

Use the UUID in fstab rather than the label.  Or change one of the
labels I suppose.

Colin

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