[wellylug] LVM and file sytems

[Daniel Pittman]

E Chalaron <e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz> writes:

> Might be a simple question as usual:
>
> I have 3 discs in LVM, 2 are ext3 1 is XFS. I'd like to reformat the
> ext3 to XFS and add the third one to my volume.
>
> I was wondering if I need to redefine everything in the LVM 

No.  HTH, HAND.

> or if it will just pickup the same partitions with the new filesystem
> (XFS) and be happy with it ?

Oh, wait.  Don't forget /etc/fstab, especially regarding the device UUID
or LABEL (if you mount using those) and the file system type.

Regards,
        Daniel