LVM and install over existing installation
- From: Tim Anstey <tim.anstey@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:34:34 +1100
Hi,
I've recently acquired a cheap dedicated server for testing purposes which
was shipped was CentOS, not my preferred distro. To resolve this I intend to
install Debian from within the existing install as documented in the Debian
installation guide.
Now, this has always worked well in the past and this is aided by the fact
that normally servers are provisioned with normal, boring filesystems like /
being ext3. In this instance they've used LVM and frankly I've never used
LVM before and I don't know how it will effect what I plan to do.
So what I'm asking is, can I turn the LVM partition back into ext3 or
alternatively can I just treat the LVM partition as a normal one?
[root@server ~]# fdisk -l;
Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20416757760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2482 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 2482 19832242+ 8e Linux LVM
The biggest problem I foresee with the LVM configuration (apart from not
understanding it) is that there is no proper swap partition, it's a logical
volume and the only way I know of to do the remote change is to boot into
the swap partition.
Anyone got any useful thoughts?
Thanks,
Tim
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