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On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:24 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > Hi All, |
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> > |
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> > Could you please hold my hand sorting some LVMs - I have no experience on |
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> > this and would not like to mess it up: |
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> > |
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> > I have create a PV which currently contains /dev/sda5. I have also |
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> > created a new PV which contains /dev/sdc1. I want to move /dev/sda5 |
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> > (11.9G) to /dev/sdc1 (150G) and then remove /dev/sda5 from this OS and |
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> > later on from this machine. How should/could I go about it? |
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> |
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> 1. Back up your data! |
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> 2. Add /dev/sdc1 to the same VG as /dev/sda5 (vgextend) |
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> 3. pvmove -v /dev/sda5 /dev/sdc1 |
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> 4. Wait a really long time |
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> 5. Verify nothing is on sda5 (pvdisplay /dev/sda5) |
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> 6. Deallocate sda5 (pvchange -x n /dev/sda5) |
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> 7. Remove sda5 from the VG (pvremove) |
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Life saver! |
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Question re. step 2: Does /dev/sdc1 *have* to be added (vgextend) to the same |
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VG_old as /dev/sda5, or could it be added (vgcreate) to a new VG_new? |
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Thanks! |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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