[mythtv-users] Clone MythTV HDD

[Andre Newman]

On 5 Aug 2009, at 09:08, Simon Hobson wrote:
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> There is of course a complication if (like me) you use LVM (I've got  
> 15 LVs in two VGs - it's a Xen box with several guests). You can  
> either use a different VG name for the new disk (which I did), or  
> you can rename either the old one before you start, or the new one  
> after you've finished copying. If you use a different name, you'll  
> have to adjust fstab and all your Xen guest configs to suit.

If LVM was used the original question probably would not need to be  
asked :-)

I've swapped many MythTV disks around using pvmove, usually 500GB disk  
to 1TB ones, especially with HDTV, didn't have to stop MythTV  
recording while it was happening either. It takes a long while as  
blocks are copied even if they are not used but as the system is still  
running the whole time that doesn't really matter.

Andre