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On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 17:50 +0200, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: |
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> Hi Guys, |
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> the subject says it all, but i'll go into more detail now, if anyone |
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> would be interested in helping. I currently have my system installed on |
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> 2 40GB IDE drives. They are in an LVM volumegroup, and the 2 drives are |
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> striped. What i need to do is transform this "striped disk cluster" |
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> into a mirror. (preferably using the most cheapest and painless |
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> method). I kind of know my way around LVM, so i don't really need a |
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> _totally_ detailed answer, but i need to know, if this that i am trying |
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> to accomplish is |
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> a) possible |
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> b) what are the steps that i should follow in order to do this? |
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> I was thinking like this: use pvmove or something to move all of the |
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> pv's from one disk to the other, then reduce the volumegroup (remove |
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> the disk eg physical volume from it) add it as a mirror... |
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Seems to me the best way to do this would be a third Disk. Is this an |
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option?? |
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