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Old 01-15-2013
How to find and move boot sectors?

Hi
A mismatch occurred on my system (Debian, Sid). I've got 3 disks sda, b, c.
Unfortunately, when I was adding a third disk (sdc) it all finished so that both sdb and sdc now have a boot flag. So, the first thing I would like to find out is which disk the system now boots from: sdb or sdc? In which log and how can I find that? The next thing is: If sdb, where is the boot sector? (I would like to erase all files from sdb). Is it in the master boot sector (outside of the partions of the disk) or in the volume boot sector (inside the first partition of the disk)? In which log can I find that and how? If it is in the volume boot sector I must not reformat the disk. The third question is: How can I move the boot sectors? I would like to move the boot sector to sda and remove boot labels from sdb and sdc. But sdc also hosts Windoze 7? Is that a problem. So, I should change grub, fstab, and what else? And how?
Thanks,
Mladen.
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VGIMPORTCLONE(8)					      System Manager's Manual						  VGIMPORTCLONE(8)

NAME
vgimportclone - import and rename duplicated volume group (e.g. a hardware snapshot) SYNOPSIS
vgimportclone [-n|--basevgname VolumeGroupName] [-i|--import] PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVolume...] DESCRIPTION
vgimportclone is used to import a duplicated VG (e.g. hardware snapshot). Duplicate VG(s) and PV(s) are not able to be used until they are made to coexist with the origin VG(s) and PV(s). vgimportclone renames the VG associated with the specified PV(s) and changes the associ- ated VG and PV UUIDs. OPTIONS
See lvm(8) for common options. -n, --basevgname VolumeGroupName By default the snapshot VG will be renamed to the original name plus a numeric suffix to avoid duplicate naming (e.g. 'test_vg' would be renamed to 'test_vg1'). This option will override the base VG name that is used for all VG renames. If a VG already exists with the specified name a numeric suffix will be added (like the previous example) to make it unique. -i, --import Import exported Volume Groups. Otherwise VGs that have been exported will not be changed (nor will their associated PVs). ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
LVM_BINARY The LVM2 binary to use. Defaults to "lvm". Examples The origin VG "vg00" has origin PVs "/dev/sda" and "/dev/sdb" and the respective snapshot PVs are "/dev/sdc" and "/dev/sdd". To rename the VG associated with "/dev/sdc" and "/dev/sdd" from "vg00" to "vg00_snap" (and to change associated VG and PV UUIDs) do: vgimportclone --basevgname vg00_snap /dev/sdc /dev/sdd SEE ALSO
lvm(8), vgrename(8) Red Hat, Inc. LVM TOOLS 2.02.105(2)-RHEL7 (2014-03-26) VGIMPORTCLONE(8)