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Am 17.11.2011 07:50, schrieb Dale: |
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> One more question. I have two drives. A 250Gb and a 750Gb. Originally |
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> the data was on the 750Gb drive. I set the 250Gb up on LVM then moved |
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> things over from the 750Gb. I then added the 750Gb to the VG and |
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> resized the file system. So, in theory the data is on the 250Gb drive. |
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> Let's say I want to remove the 250Gb drive. I would use pvmove to do |
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> that right? When I ran pvmove /dev/sdb, which is the 250Gb drive, then |
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> it would remove all the data from that drive so that it could be |
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> removed. Am I close? |
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> I'm not planning to do that but just wanting to get a better |
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> understanding of this LVM thing. |
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> Dale |
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Yes, that is correct. It moves the data by mirroring it temporarily on |
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the new location before updating the metadata so that only the new |
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location is used. Therefore you can safely reboot or abort operations. |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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