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On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:31:20 +0000 |
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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:07:59 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: |
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> > > Since you currently have plenty of free space, you don't have to |
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> > > take the system out of service to do a backup. Create a new PV in |
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> > > sda4 and run pvmove, then remove and recreate the PV on sda3 and |
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> > > pvmove the data back. Then you can delete sda4 and enlarge sda3. |
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> > Since, as Alan suggested, I enlarged sda3 with fdisk, how can I have |
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> > back my old sda4 without risking to lose the data? |
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> You only enlarged the partition, not the PV that lives on it. So you |
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> can delete and recreate it at the original size,although I'd make it a |
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> little larger than before, just to be certain it is never smaller. |
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Wow, didn't know that lvm offers such a great flexibility... |
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But I still miss someting... If I pvmove the pv from sda3 to sda4, then |
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recreate a brand new pv on sda3, pvmove the data back, fdisk to delete |
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sda4 and enlarge sda3, what will prevent pvextend to fall in the same |
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error I had before? |
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