Re: LVM questions

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 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.