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31 31  ## Moving images from LVM storage
32 32  
33 -Identify the lvm disk we are after. If is was LXC container with id 401, a disk might look like `/dev/mapper/pve-vm--401--disk--0`
33 +The actual disk is mounted as a mapper device. If is was LXC container with id 401, a disk might look like `/dev/mapper/pve-vm--401--disk--0`
34 34  
35 35  ```bash
36 36  $ fdisk -l
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47 47  /dev/mapper/pve-vm--121--disk--0-part1 227328 25165790 24938463 11.9G Linux filesystem
48 48  /dev/mapper/pve-vm--121--disk--0-part14 2048 10239 8192 4M BIOS boot
49 49  /dev/mapper/pve-vm--121--disk--0-part15 10240 227327 217088 106M EFI System
50 +```
50 50  
52 +Identify the vm disk path using the command:
53 +
54 +```bash
55 +pvesm path STORAGE:vm-VM_ID-disk-0
51 51  ```
52 52  
53 -
58 +Stop the container or vm:
59 +
60 +```bash
61 +qm stop 401
62 +or
63 +lxc-stop 401
64 +```
65 +
66 +Then convert the the storage with:
67 +
68 +```bash
69 +qemu-img convert -p -O qcow2 $(pvesm path local-lvm:vm-401-disk-0) vm-401-disk-0.qcow2
70 +```
71 +
72 +note, here we also move the storage from `local-lvm` to `nvme`.