On 07/22/2012 01:46 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > If you have a spare drive, I'd add a partition on that to the VG you want > to keep,
Aha! That's exactly the kind of outside-the-box hint I needed, thanks. Now that I understand the concept, the rest should be "easy". Just like everything else about computers ;) > increase the LV size and move everything over. Then remove the > VGs from the second disk, add it to the first VG and use pvmove to move > everything off the spare disk before removing it from the VG. You can > continue to use the system while this runs, so this gives the least > downtime with minimal hassle.

