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Thread: General LVM info needed

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    General LVM info needed

    I was wondering if when you setup an LVM if your volumes needed to be reformatted? Can you combine two disks that have data on them together without losing the data?

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    Re: General LVM info needed

    Yes, you have to reformat to start using LVM. Once you're on LVM though, you can move volumes around, add and remove drives, all without data loss.

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    Re: General LVM info needed

    I have another question for you. What would you use to setup a LVM? I know the Ubuntu setup cd could do it but could you use GParted or the Gparted Live CD?

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    Re: General LVM info needed

    No, gparted does not understand lvm. The recommended way is to install using the alternate installer. I just installed the lvm2 package on the livecd and manually set up lvm then installed.

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