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Fastest way to convert an ext4 formatted disk to LVM with ext4 on it?

I'm currently doing cp -aR to copy data from my (99% full) 1TB ext4 formatted disk to a new LVM-with-ext4-on-it disk. It's taking forever. Is there any way to attempt to "convert" the disk in place? ...
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Having trouble with EXT4 on LVM on software RAID 5 (corruption)

Here's the quick and dirty of my problem. I'm using Lubuntu 12.04, Xubuntu 12.04 and plain Ubuntu 12.04. Tried with generic kernels 3.2.0-25 and 3.2.0-26. This issue persists on all 3 variants which ...
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A weird issue relate to ext4/lvm/raid-5 after partition recovery

I have 3 hard disks, in the following paragraphs named /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, newest came first. Note: /dev/sdc has one primary partition /dev/sdc1, one extended partition /dev/sd2, and 3 ...
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unable to mount lvm ext4 filesystem

I was moving a couple of physical volumes from my lvm. I managed to successfully pvmove and pvremove them. After this i was moving some files from the lvm to one of the removed pvs. Now during this my ...