From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i78E03a30501 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2004 10:00:03 -0400 Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.192]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i78E03e1003672 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2004 10:00:03 -0400 Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 76so83209rnl for ; Sun, 08 Aug 2004 07:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <115936e9040808070017d55355@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 09:00:02 -0500 From: BK Box Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvmove problem In-Reply-To: <20040807115431.A17768@homer.msp.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <115936e9040807092135ccc2be@mail.gmail.com> <20040807115431.A17768@homer.msp.redhat.com> Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LVM general discussion and development On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 11:54:31 -0500, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 11:21:12AM -0500, BK Box wrote: > > I have a pretty lengthy explanation.. so i'll just post the link to it. > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=206391 > > Summary: How do I pvmove data with LVM2 if contiguous runs of > PEs in the source LVs will have to be split up to make them fit? > > Quick answer: > LVM2 doesn't support this directly yet: it's being worked on. > Until it's done you need to edit the metadata [using vgcfg*] > to split the segments into smaller ones before running pvmove. > [Might also need to recompile disabling section merging code > which would undo your splitting.] > > Alasdair > -- > agk@redhat.com > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > Thank you very much, I'm glad I finally got an answer. I have another question for you now... All I seem to have is vgcfgrestore and vgcfgbackup.. but by reading the man pages I don't see how they edit the metadata. Is there another vgcfg that I am missing? Thank you