Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 03:27:31 -0600, Dale wrote:

> Now to the second question.  I found a 8TB hard drive and bought it.  My
> plan is to take my 6TB backup drive and install it in place of a 3TB
> drive which has LVM on it.  I plan to use the 8TB drive as a external
> backup drive in the end.  Will do a backup before changing internal
> drives tho.  From what I've read, I can use pvmove and pvremove to
> replace that drive.  Just tell pv to move the data and when done, remove
> the old drive. After that, the new 6TB drive will be used in that PV and
> the 3TB drive can be used for something else.  Is it really that easy or
> is there more to it than that?  Pardon me but that doesn't sound
> complicated enough to me.  lol 

It's been a while since I did that but AFAIR, yes it is that simple.
pvmove does all the hard work and it can take a while, but it can survive
an interruption.


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Neil Bothwick

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