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

[Tony Brummett]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:58:25AM -0500, 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). 

If you want the fancy LVM way to do it, and the new drive is at least as
large as the old one, you can add the new drive to the volume group,
use pvmove to move the extents off of the dying drive, then remove the
old drive from the volume group.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/removeadisk.html

You'll need another method to move data on non-LVM partitions.

-- Tony