LVM on installed system in new hardware a problem?

[Joep L. Blom]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 23:44 +0200, Joep L. Blom wrote:
> 
>> Thanks,
>> That's a good idea.
>> I seldom use rsync but is of course a logical choice for this task.
>> I'll do that tomorrow as I don't know how much time it take to transfer 
>> ~ 100 GB.
> 
> 100GB will depend on your network bandwidth.  SSH will slow the transfer
> down a bit, due to the encryption.  You can add a --progress flag to see
> the transfer rates.
> 
>> I assume I can format the new disk with gparted as I haven't use that 
>> before.
> 
> gparted is used to partition the disk.  It also has full ext2/ext3
> filesystem support for creating new filesystems on the partition.
Thanks for the info.
As you see it's morning and I will do it today.
Thanks again.
Joep