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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:50:08 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>> Another LVM question. If I want to remove a drive and tell pvmove to |
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>> move the data off it, can the drive have files being written to it |
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>> while this is done? I'm wanting to use my old spare drive to move some |
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>> things around but right now LVM has it. I think it is OK but just want |
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>> to make sure. If it is not OK, do I have to unmount the LV first? |
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> Once you start pvmove running, LVM will not allocate any more space on |
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> the drive, so any files written to the LV will go on another drive. |
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> If you mean you want to write to it separately from LVM, of course you |
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> can, as long as you are using a different partition. |
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I think we have a problem: |
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root@fireball / # pvmove -v /dev/sdb1 |
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Finding volume group "data" |
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Archiving volume group "data" metadata (seqno 4). |
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Creating logical volume pvmove0 |
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Moving 59604 extents of logical volume data/data1 |
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Insufficient free space: 59604 extents needed, but only 118 available |
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Unable to allocate mirror extents for pvmove0. |
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Failed to convert pvmove LV to mirrored |
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root@fireball / # pvdisplay |
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--- Physical volume --- |
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PV Name /dev/sdb1 |
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VG Name data |
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PV Size 232.83 GiB / not usable 2.55 MiB |
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Allocatable yes (but full) |
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PE Size 4.00 MiB |
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Total PE 59604 |
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Free PE 0 |
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Allocated PE 59604 |
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PV UUID Nxvrjn-BuaK-RGsF-F32S-0EaI-W4xe-H6Lnjl |
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--- Physical volume --- |
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PV Name /dev/sdc1 |
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VG Name data |
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PV Size 698.64 GiB / not usable 4.84 MiB |
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Allocatable yes |
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PE Size 4.00 MiB |
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Total PE 178850 |
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Free PE 118 |
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Allocated PE 178732 |
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PV UUID NF6I4G-L1L5-0VDE-HyUc-ESH3-CfV3-eUo676 |
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root@fireball / # df |
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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on |
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rootfs 19534436 7249460 12284976 38% / |
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/dev/root 19534436 7249460 12284976 38% / |
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rc-svcdir 1024 120 904 12% /lib64/rc/init.d |
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udev 10240 360 9880 4% /dev |
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shm 8232972 0 8232972 0% /dev/shm |
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/dev/sda1 186663 28128 148898 16% /boot |
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/dev/sda8 9614116 4366692 4759052 48% /var |
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/dev/sda6 11535344 5332948 5616428 49% /usr/portage |
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/dev/sda7 48828008 11273180 37554828 24% /home |
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/dev/mapper/data-data1 |
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960906608 275263224 636841120 31% /data |
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tmpfs 8232972 0 8232972 0% /var/tmp/portage |
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/dev/sda9 59434744 31373872 25041732 56% /mnt/temp |
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root@fireball / # |
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So, I got space left on sdc but it won't move the data off sdb. Did |
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this run off into the ditch? :/ |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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