dasdfmt to format the dasd.
fdasd to partition it
pvmove to move the data.  

Yes it have done this and it has worked.

One caveat, sometimes you cannot move the entire physical volume with one 
command.  You have to move it a logical volume at a time.  But we can cross 
that bridge when you get there.


Ron Foster

Baldor Electric Company

5711 R S Boreham Jr Street

Fort Smith, AR 72901

Phone:479-648-5865

Fax:479-646-5440

Email: [email protected]

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www.baldor.com



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From: Linux on 390 Port [[email protected]] on behalf of Eric Chevalier 
[[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 11:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Adding space to Logical Volume Group by expanding the underlying 
physical disks?

Ron,

Thank you very much for that suggestion. It looks like it might be
exactly what I want! I'm assuming I still need to "fdasd" to perform the
intial format of the new drive, then just pvmove? If the answer is
"yes", you've just made my day!

Eric

On 6/21/13 11:03 AM, Ron Foster wrote:
> Eric,
>
> I am a SuSe person, but I would consider using the pvmove command to copy 
> physical volumes around.  The lvm physical volumes would not have to be the 
> same size.  That is, you can copy directly from a smaller lvm physical volume 
> to a larger lvm physical volume and would not have to expand it. (Eliminates 
> step 3 from your process).
>
> Ron Foster

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