Migrating a Linux (Debian Squeeze) system from one HD to another HD

[Amos Shapira]

On Feb 19, 2012 4:37 PM, "Daniel Shahaf" <d.s at daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>
> Omer Zak wrote on Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 04:03:05 +0200:
> > My PC has a 500GB hard disk, and I want to migrate it to a 2TB hard
> > disk.
> > The new hard disk has been formatted to have two physical partitions,
> > one serves as /boot and the other is an encrypted LVM volume, which has
> > its own division into logical partitions.
> >
> > I rsync'ed the old hard disk's contents into the new one (excluding
> ...
> > 2. Is there any guide about migrating a Debian Squeeze system inside an
> > encrypted LVM partition from one hard disk to another hard disk?
>
> One thing that jumps to mind: given that the old disk uses LVM too, you
> could transition the LV's from the old disk to the new one by using LVM
> tools.
>
> I don't recall the exact commands, but I suppose it's along the lines of
> "convert the LV to a mirror (with one PV on the small disk and one PV on
> the new one), then tell LVM to retire the old disk's PV's."

No need for that. Vgmove then remove the old PV from the VG before
disconnecting it.

>
> HTH.  I'm not sure how this interacts with the boot parts of the
> equation or with encrypted partitions.
>
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