Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions.
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 16:51:18
Message-Id: 8C97E7D7-2143-4030-ADEC-EEEE6B072D53@antarean.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions. by Neil Bothwick
1 Be careful to reduce the interval for reporting the progress.
2 Not sure if the memory leak was fixed yet, I ended up setting the interval to 10 to 30 minutes in the past to avoid memory issues.
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5 Joost
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7 On December 6, 2018 10:03:31 AM UTC, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
8 >On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 03:27:31 -0600, Dale wrote:
9 >
10 >> Now to the second question.  I found a 8TB hard drive and bought it. 
11 >My
12 >> plan is to take my 6TB backup drive and install it in place of a 3TB
13 >> drive which has LVM on it.  I plan to use the 8TB drive as a external
14 >> backup drive in the end.  Will do a backup before changing internal
15 >> drives tho.  From what I've read, I can use pvmove and pvremove to
16 >> replace that drive.  Just tell pv to move the data and when done,
17 >remove
18 >> the old drive. After that, the new 6TB drive will be used in that PV
19 >and
20 >> the 3TB drive can be used for something else.  Is it really that easy
21 >or
22 >> is there more to it than that?  Pardon me but that doesn't sound
23 >> complicated enough to me.  lol 
24 >
25 >It's been a while since I did that but AFAIR, yes it is that simple.
26 >pvmove does all the hard work and it can take a while, but it can
27 >survive
28 >an interruption.
29 >
30 >
31 >--
32 >Neil Bothwick
33 >
34 >Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
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37 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.