[linux-lvm] physically swapping hdd with hda

Joe Thornber thornber at btconnect.com
Wed Sep 5 07:29:22 UTC 2001


On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:09:58PM -0400, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
> hi all,
> 
>   I have RH 7.1 and I snagged kernel 2.4.9 from kernel.org with LVM-1.0
> and the reiserfs patches.
> 
> I have my system running which hdd as the root drive with /boot as ext2
> and an LVM / & /home reiserfs filesystems.
> 
> what do I need to do before/during/after I physically swap hda with hdd
> in the same PC?

Just run vgscan after the swap.  vgscan looks at all the devices
hunting for LVM labels, these labels contain unique id's for PV's.

- Joe




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