G+_Travis Hershberger Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 So, Linux with LVM blew my mind last night. I have a system with an SSD that is failing. Bog standard Debian with LVM. Added another drive, dropped a partition for boot and one for LVM. Then the magic happens... pvcreate /dev/sdX2 vgextend VOLUME_GROUP /dev/sdX2 pvmove /dev/sdA2 /dev/sdX2 pvreduce VOLUME_GROUP /dev/sdA2 I've just moved a live, running system partition from a failing drive to the new drive! If you need to do this yourself replace the X with the new drive and the A with the old drive. Now I want to go try this with Windows just to watch the death of an OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Really? Because I just did it last night. Windows 7 from a dying SSD to a new SSD. -- Took about 15 minutes with Norton Ghost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted September 19, 2014 Author Share Posted September 19, 2014 It's been a long time since I used Ghost, did they actually enable it's use on a live system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted September 19, 2014 Author Share Posted September 19, 2014 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_john ferris Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Can't help myself but lvm is free, how much is ghost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 I dunno... it came free with my PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 /UpOnSoapBox The reason why I needed to do the copy to a new SSD as quickly as possible was because I needed to finishing editing an Adobe Premiere video project for "Know How" --- I would never face that problem on a Linux install, because I would never be running a video-editing suite on Linux. I use Linux distros (mostly Fedora) extensively in my CoLo. I use Windows almost exclusively on my Desktop. My mobile devices are all Android or iOS. -- I know the strengths and weaknesses of each, and I know what I can do with each. -- I don't feel the need to get in a pissing contest because one is better than another in an arbitrary task. I was totally grooving on Travis Hershberger's post until he felt the need to add "Now I want to go try this with Windows just to watch the death of an OS." Whenever you start chest-beating to prove the awesomeness of your OS, in all cases you end up looking... well... chest-beaty. /DownFromSoapbox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_john ferris Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Don't mean to beat my chest. I completely agree with you video editing not a Linux thing, and each OS has great strength s and weaknesses. For the price a customer must pay for an OS, wouldn't it be nice to have the ability to fully backup the system just with the OS? Little things like this can really make an is strong. Though I have to say this may not be as important now as things are moving more to the cloud, thus the system/OS is not important, but the ability to get to your cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted September 21, 2014 Author Share Posted September 21, 2014 I still run Windows 7 at home. I am a gamer after all. Microsoft has a place, just not in the small part of SMB, which is where I work. I still have nightmares about licensing. I'm not trying to bash here, but not even Microsoft employees get licensing correct for the more advanced stuff like VDI. It's not just a Microsoft thing either. Oracle, Sun, Pro-E, Ideas and Catia are all at least as bad if not worse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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