Re: [Xen-users] sles 10 lvm install clone/copy

[Jan Albrecht <jan.albrecht@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulrich Windl wrote:
> On 21 Nov 2006 at 8:08, Tijl Van den Broeck wrote:
>
>   
>> Only if they are equally sized you can use "dd
>> if=/dev/mapper/lvmachine1 of=/dev/mapper/lvmachine2 bs=1M". If they
>>     
>
> Actually the reason why I did NOT do it that way was that some filesystems 
> assign 
> a UUID to the filesystem (which is essential for FS repair in reiserfs for 
> example). That way, both filesystems would have the same UUID. I preferred to 
> mount both systems (DomUs) in Dom0 and did a "cp -a". Then unmount and boot 
> DomUs.
As far as I remember you used yast for the SLES10 guest.
IIRC yast uses partitions on these devices so you can't mount the easily.

Jan

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