From: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Moving a PV to a new, larger, disk.
Date: Wed Jan 14 08:37:01 2004 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040113162256.GA3756@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424171942.20040113154554@tnonline.net>
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:45:54PM +0100, Spam wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to use dd/dd_rescue to simply copy a PV to a new disk
> that is slightly (16MiB)larger?
>
> The old pv is on /dev/hdb1 and the new disk is /dev/hdc and is
> unpartitioned so far. How would I proceed to make this work?
Following procedure to make it happen:
o partition the new disk with 1 partition of _exactly_
the same size (in units of sectors) as /dev/hdb1
o dd(_rescue) content over
o remove the old disk
o vgscan
o vgchange -ay
>
> This might seem odd to do as I could perhaps use pvmove, but pvmove
> requires the whole vg to be present in the system, right?
>
> //Anders
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-14 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-13 9:47 [linux-lvm] Moving a PV to a new, larger, disk Spam
2004-01-14 8:37 ` Heinz Mauelshagen [this message]
2004-01-14 10:09 ` Spam
2004-01-14 18:22 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2004-01-20 16:11 ` Steven Lembark
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