[fedora-virt] porting a disk from lvm to file

Alexander Boström abo at root.snowtree.se
Wed Jul 28 17:35:59 UTC 2010


ons 2010-07-28 klockan 17:48 +0200 skrev Gianluca Cecchi:

> Can I port this lvm vm-disk to file, for example with something like:
> 
> dd if=/dev/vgname/lvname of=/directory_tree/filename

Yes.

> Do I have perhaps to consider some heading for lvm metadata and skip
> anything form the dd command?

Nope, the LVM metadata is not visible in the LV's block device.

/Alexander




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