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[ILUG] Changing a nonLVM to LVM

[ILUG] Changing a nonLVM to LVM

Kae Verens kae at verens.com
Wed Apr 1 13:14:09 IST 2009


Brian O'Mahony wrote:
> I recently created a rhel5 VM running on ESX. However during the install, I stupidly forgot to make it use LVM. Now I think I actually want it to use LVM. As it hasn't gone live yet, is there any easy way to convert the underlying disks to using LVM?
> 
> Im thinking there isn't, but thought I would ask...


take the disks out, clone to another machine, repartition using LVM, and copy the files back?

kae



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