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On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 03:27:31 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> Now to the second question. I found a 8TB hard drive and bought it. My |
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> plan is to take my 6TB backup drive and install it in place of a 3TB |
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> drive which has LVM on it. I plan to use the 8TB drive as a external |
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> backup drive in the end. Will do a backup before changing internal |
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> drives tho. From what I've read, I can use pvmove and pvremove to |
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> replace that drive. Just tell pv to move the data and when done, remove |
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> the old drive. After that, the new 6TB drive will be used in that PV and |
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> the 3TB drive can be used for something else. Is it really that easy or |
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> is there more to it than that? Pardon me but that doesn't sound |
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> complicated enough to me. lol |
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It's been a while since I did that but AFAIR, yes it is that simple. |
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pvmove does all the hard work and it can take a while, but it can survive |
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an interruption. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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