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From: Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:03:16
Message-Id: 174769d1-5fcf-6ac9-5595-4e1d02a7bbf5@youngman.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around by Dale
1 On 28/03/2022 13:52, Dale wrote:
2 > I googled and was trying to find info on how long it will take to shrink
3 > from 20TB to around 12TBs or so.  It didn't lead to much except for
4 > someone with some seriously large drives and it taking about a week to
5 > shrink.  That's a problem.  If it will even take a few hours, I need a
6 > new plan.  Anyone have ideas on how long that will take?
7
8 Well, formatting my 3TB and 4TB drives I was looking at hours.
9 dm-integrity I think it was a day or so.
10
11 If you're shrinking 8TB off it, depends how much data it has to move
12 around, but I'd allow at least a day, maybe more ...
13
14 Cheers,
15 Wol

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Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>