frank wrote:

>
> Good luck Jon, a knotty problem indeed. LVM is wonderful for its dynamic
> configuration capability but definitely introduces an additional layer of
> abstraction into your system.
>
> Look in /etc/lvm for the configuration settings if you're able to access
> that, and preserve/back them up before performing the
> import function.
>
> Keep us posted on your progress and hoped for success.

Well, I'll keep you posted, not much posted on this topic until now ...

I was also considering using vgexport, but I'm not really sure what that
command does, except "make volume groups unknown to the system" (manpage)

I have a brand spanking new 146gb disk which could hold everything
exported from the volumegroup on /dev/sda2 + /dev/sdb1, but I'm not
capable of extracting the outcome of using this command from the man-page.

--
martin s.