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