[mythtv-users] OT: Best way to migrate to new hard drive?

[Kevin Kuphal]

Steve Frank wrote:

>What's the best way to move my MythTV box from a dying hard drive to a
>new one?
>
>Before you answer, understand I'm using LVM in this case for my
>recordings partition (everything else is currently ext3 on plain
>partitions). 
>
>Symantec Ghost is an option up until LVM enters the picture. I've looked
>at Mondo Rescue (http://www.mondorescue.org/index.html),  PartImage
>(http://www.partimage.org/), and g4u (http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/).  
>
>Mondo Rescue comes close because it supports LVM, but not in a
>disc-to-disc fashion.  It's more geared up for doing a rescue CD or up
>to the network.  G4u doesn't care about the filesystem, but it's mostly
>for moving from the same geometry, rather than resize, and in this
>process I'm putting in a larger drive. Partimage doesn't seem to mention
>much about LVM, so I'm a little confused there.
>
>I may just remove the LVM partition entirely and recreate it.
>
>I'm not a LVM guru. Fedora Core set it up nicely, and it allowed me to
>span to a second drive to get a really big store for Myth.  I was able
>to get that drive removed after archiving off some old recordings so
>this process could be simplified down to one drive.
>
>I'm guessing some of you gurus in MythTV-users have done this sort of
>thing before?
>  
>
It may seem simplistic, but can't you create a new LVM volume on the new 
disk and just copy the data from one to the other and then remove the 
old disk.  Once done, you can mount the new LVM volume in place of your 
old one and everything should be fine.  Or am I missing something?

Kevin