[linux-lvm] Newbie question

[Vincent Bernat]

Le Fri Jul 13, 2001 at 12:33 -0300, 
Leandro Lucarella <luca at lucarella.com.ar> disait :

> Now I have a question. I read the HOWTO migrate the old root partition to a
> LV, and the method is to make a LV on another HD (or the same if it's
> room), copy the root FS to this LV, delete the old partition and add it to
> the new LV. My question is. It's possible to make a VG without striping
> ('cause I have just 1 HD in the begining) and then, when I add the old
> partition to the VG, make this VG to do striping????

The FAQ seems to say it is not possible. You cannot add a PV to a
stripping LV. It may change in the future.