Moving a volume group to another system
- Moving a volume group to another system It is quite easy to move a whole volume group to another system if, for example, a user department acquires a new server. To do this we use the vgexport and vgimport commands. vgexport/vgimport is not necessary to move drives from one system to another. It is an administrative policy tool to prevent access to volumes in the time it takes to move them. 1. Unmount the file system First, make sure that no users are accessing files on the active volume, then unmount it. Here the mount point directory is /mnt/temp1. # unmount /mnt/temp1 2. Mark the volume group inactive Marking the volume group inactive removes it from the kernel and prevents any further activity on it.Here users is the volume group name. # vgchange -an users vgchange -- volume group "users" successfully deactivated 3. Export the volume group It is now necessary to export the volume group. This prevents it from bei...