sylaan
April 25th, 2008, 08:12 AM
Hello all,
I am running my home fileserver on OpenSuse 10.3, I am using it mainly for media storage (movies, music, images, files, etc). I currently have a 520GB LVM volume spread on 3 physical disks. One of those disks has also the /, swap and home partition.
Specifically, OpenSuse takes sdc1 (swap), sdc2 (/) and sdc3 (home). The LVM volume uses the rest of sdc - sdc4 - then also sda1 (full disk) and sdb1 (full disk).
My intention is to install Ubuntu 8.04 server edition on the existing sdc drive, without re-partitioning. I don't want to lose the LVM. I am hoping that I will be able to keep the partition structure and I am also hoping that I will be able to safely import my existing LVM.
Is that possible ? How exactly I import my LVM, or make Ubuntu recognize the existing volume ? Will it do it by default ?
Any pointers or info will be much appreciated :)
Thanks,
Sylaan
I am running my home fileserver on OpenSuse 10.3, I am using it mainly for media storage (movies, music, images, files, etc). I currently have a 520GB LVM volume spread on 3 physical disks. One of those disks has also the /, swap and home partition.
Specifically, OpenSuse takes sdc1 (swap), sdc2 (/) and sdc3 (home). The LVM volume uses the rest of sdc - sdc4 - then also sda1 (full disk) and sdb1 (full disk).
My intention is to install Ubuntu 8.04 server edition on the existing sdc drive, without re-partitioning. I don't want to lose the LVM. I am hoping that I will be able to keep the partition structure and I am also hoping that I will be able to safely import my existing LVM.
Is that possible ? How exactly I import my LVM, or make Ubuntu recognize the existing volume ? Will it do it by default ?
Any pointers or info will be much appreciated :)
Thanks,
Sylaan