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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> <<<SNIP>>>
>
> 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 
>
> <<<SNIP>>>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-) 
>


Well, I started this move this morning.  I added the 6TB drive hardware
wise, then used pv commands to add it and to move the data to the 6TB
drive.  When that was done, move took about 6 hours, I resized the file
system and now have this:


Filesystem                                     Size  Used Avail Use%
Mounted on
/dev/mapper/Home2-Home2          8.1T  3.9T  4.2T  48% /home


Now I have some breathing room.  It really was that easy.  I'm shocked. 
lol  I might add, I bought this external enclosure. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/External-3-5-SATA-USB-3-0-eSATA-Hard-Drive-Enclosure-80-mm-Variable-Speed-F/381043280186

It has a fan and a nifty display.  Claims it has a alarm if the temps
get to high too.  I hope I never hear that.  I stuck my 8TB drive in it
for my backup drive. 

If my maths are correct, this will last me a couple years.  I guess I'll
swap the other 3TB drive for another 6TB drive then.  Then rinse and
repeat until this rig dies or I do one.  :/ 

By the way, my BIOS doesn't support the NVME drives.  I'd have to get a
new mobo for that.  Bummer.

Thanks to all who helped. 

Dale

:-)  :-)