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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:49:10 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>> Anything else that could be a gotcha? I plan to move this twice. Once |
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>> to the spare drive, repartition the OS drive then copy things back over |
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>> again. |
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> There's no need for the second copy. Create the VG on the spare drive and |
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> copy everything over. Then you can reboot into the system. Now you can |
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> remove the old partitions from the main drive and create a single PV in |
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> the space freed (reboot after repartitioning to make sure you're using |
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> the new partition table. |
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> Then add the new PV to the VG you are using and use pvmove to transfer |
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> everything from the spare drive to the main one. You can use the system |
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> while doing this, so there is only half the downtime compared with doing |
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> two copies. |
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Florian has a good idea too. Dang, both of these sound good. Well, I |
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got to think on this one. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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