Re: [PLUG] Is it possible to move data from a SAS drive to the newly installed SSD?

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

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Is there a reason you can't just put the commands directly in your
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Walt

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:51:14AM -0500, H Mottaleb via plug wrote:
> Would someone please help me to mount the usb drive on the server.
> 
> I tried the following commands but it didn’t work. Thanks
> 
> https://uploadpie.com/lFnCd1
> 
> > On Jan 19, 2021, at 8:47 PM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 8:18 PM H Mottaleb via plug
> > <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Please see the image below and let me know how I should setup my new 2TB drive. I am not sure why Linux is creating so many different partitions but I would like to have everything on one if possible.
> >> 
> > 
> > First, your idea of setting up a new host and then mounting the disk
> > in the other host via USB to copy the files over is fine.
> > 
> > It will be easier if you rename the volume group on the new host
> > though otherwise getting it mounted on the old host will be a pain.
> > Right now it is called ubuntu-vg which is the default - you can call
> > it anything else that you want.
> > 
> > Here is the deal with all those partitions, and you can do two things
> > on that screen to make your life easier.
> > 
> > First, you have two physical partitions for /boot and /boot/efi - you
> > can't do anything about that really.  That is just needed to get your
> > system booted.
> > 
> > Then you have one more physical partition on the disk that contains
> > all but 1.5GB of the space.  That is just a container for LVM volumes,
> > which let you more flexibly deal with the rest of the partitioning.
> > Physical partitions are a real pain to manipulate.  LVM partitions are
> > very easy to manipulate - you can grow and shrink and move them
> > between disks without even having to shut anything down.  That is why
> > it is recommended that you use it (or one of a few competing
> > technologies - LVM is probably the simplest).
> > 
> > Within that 3rd partition the system wants to create a single logical
> > volume called ubuntu-lv that is going to be used as your root
> > partition.
> > 
> > Here are the two changes I would make:
> > 1.  Rename the volume group to anything else - like <hostname>-vg if you want.
> > 2.  Resize that root partition from 200G up to maybe 1TB to start.
> > 
> > That will make it easier to copy your other files over, and it will
> > give you a lot more space on your root filesystem to start, which
> > means you don't have to worry about mounting anything for your
> > /var/lib/goetherium directory.
> > 
> > The reason that I suggest renaming the volume group is that the other
> > host has a volume group named ubuntu-vg.  That means that if you
> > remove the disk and try to mount it on the other system, you'll have
> > to jump through a lot of hoops to do anything with it.  LVM tends to
> > get upset when you have to VGs with the same name at the same time.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Rich
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