Hi Terry, On 9/06/2014 10:27 AM, Terry Duell wrote:
I may well have to try to understand how my problem can be solved using LVM, because attempting to do it via all the available advice (on the web) thus far has proven to be unsatisfactory. Attempts to use standard partitioning of the SSD, rsync my system and data files across, adjust my /etc/fstab, results in never getting any further than the login prompt when booting into the SSD. The login prompt keeps returning. Searches for what might be causing that haven't resulted in any useful advice. I also had advice to do a clean install then copy files to SSD, but that has the same result. I suspect that there must be a file or files, other than /etc/fstab, that have stuff relating to the old disc, and if this is the case is moving a volume group going to have the same problem?
How about doing this: blkid -c /dev/null That will list all the partitions, then change the /etc/fstab with UUID entries, then it won't matter which disk the partitions are on. You still need to be able to boot, so wherever the boot files are, they need to be handled. You'll probably have a standard MBR type partition table too, no GPT to worry about. Hope that helps somewhat at least ;-) Cheers A.