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On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 10:38 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I currently have a system where the root file system is part of a > volume group. What I would like to do is to create the root, boot, and > swap file system as a separate physical volume. /boot would normally be > an ext3. > > Here is what I would like to do. I currently have a system where root > is part of the LVM. I would like to build RHEL 4 U6 on a separate > physical volume containing boot and root. I would then like to be able > to attach the existing LVM volumes to it. > > Example: > 1. Unused 73GB drive - create new OS > 2. 3 73GB drives currently containing /boot - ext3, Logical Volume 01 > for root, and Logical Volume 02 for swap. > > Currently this particular system is used for backups. The questions are: > 1. When I do a clean install of RHEL 4U6 on the new volume, can I > access the existing LVM volumes.
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