On Thursday 27 September 2007 22:27:45 Sunny wrote: > On 9/27/07, Bob Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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