On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:24 +0000, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Could you please hold my hand sorting some LVMs - I have no experience on > > this and would not like to mess it up: > > > > I have create a PV which currently contains /dev/sda5. I have also > > created a new PV which contains /dev/sdc1. I want to move /dev/sda5 > > (11.9G) to /dev/sdc1 (150G) and then remove /dev/sda5 from this OS and > > later on from this machine. How should/could I go about it? > > 1. Back up your data! > 2. Add /dev/sdc1 to the same VG as /dev/sda5 (vgextend) > 3. pvmove -v /dev/sda5 /dev/sdc1 > 4. Wait a really long time > 5. Verify nothing is on sda5 (pvdisplay /dev/sda5) > 6. Deallocate sda5 (pvchange -x n /dev/sda5) > 7. Remove sda5 from the VG (pvremove)
Life saver! Question re. step 2: Does /dev/sdc1 *have* to be added (vgextend) to the same VG_old as /dev/sda5, or could it be added (vgcreate) to a new VG_new? Thanks! -- Regards, Mick
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