From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2BA1E138334 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:03:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29B31E0942; Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:03:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.21]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99A81E087E for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:03:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=mail.digimed.co.uk) by smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1gUqVN-0006kB-NP for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2018 10:03:37 +0000 Received: from digimed.co.uk (fenchurch.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5969A65B93 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:03:37 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:03:31 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions. Message-ID: <20181206100331.2c7c298b@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <492d8bf4-4b8d-f7f6-05d8-2473b6825fab@gmail.com> References: <492d8bf4-4b8d-f7f6-05d8-2473b6825fab@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.1 (GTK+ 2.24.32; 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="Sig_/xzKWhD5kvFMFm_/Hbs_dkqU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Originating-smarthost03b-IP: [82.69.83.178] Feedback-ID: 82.69.83.178 X-Archives-Salt: da98e1c1-a464-4ccd-a117-15e2c3165cc3 X-Archives-Hash: e65aa402cdc165d6f6c6ee9e7bcb06dc --Sig_/xzKWhD5kvFMFm_/Hbs_dkqU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 03:27:31 -0600, Dale wrote: > Now to the second question.=C2=A0 I found a 8TB hard drive and bought it.= =C2=A0 My > plan is to take my 6TB backup drive and install it in place of a 3TB > drive which has LVM on it.=C2=A0 I plan to use the 8TB drive as a external > backup drive in the end.=C2=A0 Will do a backup before changing internal > drives tho.=C2=A0 From what I've read, I can use pvmove and pvremove to > replace that drive.=C2=A0 Just tell pv to move the data and when done, re= move > 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.=C2=A0 Is it really that eas= y or > is there more to it than that?=C2=A0 Pardon me but that doesn't sound > complicated enough to me.=C2=A0 lol=C2=A0 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. --Sig_/xzKWhD5kvFMFm_/Hbs_dkqU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEGfLZTV7dXdQXh/dDdCdyyQfftocFAlwI8/MACgkQdCdyyQff tocflhAAjn12QGYAd8bUaLxf8vL8tpkym3E8Ijnx/vMET5ACSel+Cn+kavTtfrs5 wpx3H0CSXPautrAQdHHbA1QB0XepHI+bxFH+i+kaKaKRj3gtDrTKRwzmo06iqErW dLoyjJro0MyD6sAJIg5BEUOZCI4dvl4us/66hwPXja/bsDMZ7DpvuNKpdohxIlLq 1SDiKQzl4WpS1PX/KHe0aqEuw/viHbm9fpRLiD9uyg3vc1f5MiLb+5ac3hyquMvz Bu/QWNRFQZnHb4WslMoO+B3xNovW91zZfedOE79ZMNL5/bhk9mlaB3DMZsy9yN+9 BEY0z9xdJ+X8J5j1Ct8RcB+c5OY28PWzZ7sGKzEUNh5yYjIW9V3oaBwHrsjS4iJL vwZIR3+w0kyf0jPj+rj//5dMWVicgGPEnaL/y4mnQiY0xCQCaqJVA6DGB+rlhsHs UQyheouk8fm3KrP9S4WKgI2EiNNMyVgwvdpCQPRIIT2QBrE5v8LthcAPXCP1sN2Z spaH1qn85JiXwTLXKjXnOxrBHdnPoOsh6aJTAOq8RhaSiIn3wDCuQ8E8sozhV50d I01Tv9zQ9UBX6LpgfJCchQuXA9tMttvI4nxjU0gEYFicFXTbIjLE04CxKtWkI1H1 fBxgfcULKinVoJDOhbeWywqaYi9futOJJ+MSCOv062cpYLN95Sw= =4qah -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/xzKWhD5kvFMFm_/Hbs_dkqU--