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Re: [opensuse] Adding/subtracting physical volumes in LVM
- From: Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:39:56 +0100
- Message-id: <200709272239.56800.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 27 September 2007 22:27:45 Sunny wrote:
> On 9/27/07, Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ATM my /home mounts a volume group which holds partitions located on two
> > different physical drives, one IDE and one SATA. If I wanted to swap the
> > IDE drive for a new SATA drive, what would happen to the data held in
> > /home?
> >
> > For example, if I remove the IDE volume from the group, will all the data
> > be consolidated onto the remaining SATA volume, during the process of
> > removing that volume?
>
> I'm not sure that the LVM YaST module is so good to do this. Better
> use pvmove command, so it moves the data away from the IDE part.
>
> Or, you can add your new SATA, create a new PV there, add it to the
> home volume, and then use pvmove. Then remove the IDE PV from the
> volume.
>
Thanks, Sunny. I think I'll add the new drive first.
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Bob
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> On 9/27/07, Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ATM my /home mounts a volume group which holds partitions located on two
> > different physical drives, one IDE and one SATA. If I wanted to swap the
> > IDE drive for a new SATA drive, what would happen to the data held in
> > /home?
> >
> > For example, if I remove the IDE volume from the group, will all the data
> > be consolidated onto the remaining SATA volume, during the process of
> > removing that volume?
>
> I'm not sure that the LVM YaST module is so good to do this. Better
> use pvmove command, so it moves the data away from the IDE part.
>
> Or, you can add your new SATA, create a new PV there, add it to the
> home volume, and then use pvmove. Then remove the IDE PV from the
> volume.
>
Thanks, Sunny. I think I'll add the new drive first.
--
Bob
openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.5, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4
Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS
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