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From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to mirror 2 drives, that are currently striped in LVM2?
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:46:49 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1120801610.29226.62.camel@neuromancer.home.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a7a8cea7b5c75d4afe758fdc2498279@gmail.com>

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 17:50 +0200, Jakub Krajcovic wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> the subject says it all, but i'll go into more detail now, if anyone 
> would be interested in helping. I currently have my system installed on 
> 2 40GB IDE drives. They are in an LVM volumegroup, and the 2 drives are 
> striped. What i need to do is transform this "striped disk cluster" 
> into a mirror. (preferably using the most cheapest and painless 
> method). I kind of know my way around LVM, so i don't really need a 
> _totally_ detailed answer, but i need to know, if this that i am trying 
> to accomplish is
> a) possible
> b) what are the steps that i should follow in order to do this?
> 
> I was thinking like this: use pvmove or something to move all of the 
> pv's from one disk to the other, then reduce the volumegroup (remove 
> the disk eg physical volume from it) add it as a mirror...

Seems to me the best way to do this would be a third Disk. Is this an
option??

> 

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-07 15:50 [gentoo-user] Is it possible to mirror 2 drives, that are currently striped in LVM2? Jakub Krajcovic
2005-07-08  5:46 ` Ow Mun Heng [this message]
2005-07-08  5:56   ` Colin

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