[plug] Moving Running System to new HDD

[Timothy White]

>
> You do need to spend a bit of time to understand LVM though.
> I shrank my root disk the other day and made the logical volume one
> extent too small (smaller that the contained file system). So you need
> to understand the physical allocations and know which utilities put out
> the information you need when resizing.

Ahh, the trick to avoiding that (depends on the file system though).
Resize the filesystem, to smaller than the target size, shrink LVM to
target, then if using a good file system (reiserfs does this), you
resize to fill available space!

Tim
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