[mythtv-users] Clone MythTV HDD

[David Brodbeck]

On Wed, August 5, 2009 12:08 am, Simon Hobson wrote:
> 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.

In theory, if you use LVM, couldn't you attach the new disks to the old
machine, add them to the LVM pool, use pvmove to migrate data from old to
new, then remove the old disks from the pool?