From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S5gWc-0004N0-1Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:49:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A0ADE089F; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B013E07F2 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:47:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 31FA180780 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:47:35 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:47:25 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1 Message-ID: <20120308164725.202a19d6@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <4F564CF2.1030007@binarywings.net> <20120306190501.77bea653@digimed.co.uk> <201203070046.18005.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20120307090336.285edef4@digimed.co.uk> <20120307133348.GB891@eisen.lan> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs30 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/6yKxE=DvzojLkNXtpeuZE0x"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 17d80b56-d570-4ad4-8127-50e1247e1e48 X-Archives-Hash: 64ae8cb427a2442e3ddd3c14765a1fd0 --Sig_/6yKxE=DvzojLkNXtpeuZE0x Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:39:11 +0000, Datty wrote: > Should it just be a case of adding the new drive as a pv to the volume > group then doing pvmove against one drive at a time and thus removing > them from the volume group? Yes, and once you've done the first you can replace it with your system drive start using it again. --=20 Neil Bothwick Beware of cover disks bearing upgrades. --Sig_/6yKxE=DvzojLkNXtpeuZE0x Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9Y4qYACgkQum4al0N1GQMDGgCeNAgriH5KzVfBoMjiCAjoAk9H lDMAoNtOKsa2AboiYd/O75XcodvQdJWk =V9OY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/6yKxE=DvzojLkNXtpeuZE0x--