Good morning -
I have a HP DL385 running Fedora 9. It has a 5TB Apple XServe RAID connected to it. The RAID device is actually 2 2.5TB devices (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1) configured together in a logical volume group.
I am planning on installing RHEL 5.2 on this system. Before doing so, I want to make sure that I can access the logical volume after the system is installed. I've verified that RHEL sees the /dev/sda and /dev/sdb partitions but I've never had to keep a logical volume before; I've just created them from scratch and restored data to it. That's not possible here because of the sheer amount of data.
Does anyone have any words of wisdom?
Thanks! Pat
I've been trying to figure this out on my own and think I understand what I need to do. Here's the detailed steps as far as I can tell. Can somebody please verify this?
1. On Fedora 9 system, unmount the logical volume and then run vgexport. 2. Install RHEL 5.2 3. On RHEL5 system, run vgimport.
Does it matter what order you give the physical device names or will the system sort everything out?
Thanks!