From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Urgent, Moving disk from hdc to hdf in existing lvm Message-ID: <20020829131347.B32269@sistina.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from kalle@idlar.nu on Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 06:19:27AM -0500 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu Aug 29 06:29:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Kalle, any configuration change schould be happily covered by "vgscan ; vgchange -ay". vgscan figures out all PVs by UUID and groupd them together no matter to which changed path they are attached. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 06:19:27AM -0500, kalle@idlar.nu wrote: > Hello! > > We have a problem with one of our servers thats running lvm on linux-2.4.19. > We have 4 discs in the vg, hdb, hdc, hdg and hdh. > When we booted the server this morning hdc did not get online. > We've tried diffrent cables but there seems to be some problem with the secondary controller. > The disc gets online if we put it on the promise controller thats handeling hdg and hdh. > > Is it possible to "reconfigure" the vg so that the disk that once was hdc will be hdf? Prefably without loosing data. > > Unfortunately we dont have any spare box to move the disks to, so the reconfiguring has to be done with > the old hdc disk already beeing installed as hdf. > > Any comments appreciated! > > > /Regards Kalle > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-