From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jbrassow@sourceware.org Date: 9 Feb 2011 22:24:55 -0000 Subject: LVM2/man pvmove.8.in Message-ID: <20110209222455.30740.qmail@sourceware.org> List-Id: To: lvm-devel@redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CVSROOT: /cvs/lvm2 Module name: LVM2 Changes by: jbrassow at sourceware.org 2011-02-09 22:24:55 Modified files: man : pvmove.8.in Log message: bug 659264: more examples for pvmove Patches: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/LVM2/man/pvmove.8.in.diff?cvsroot=lvm2&r1=1.4&r2=1.5 --- LVM2/man/pvmove.8.in 2011/02/09 17:42:15 1.4 +++ LVM2/man/pvmove.8.in 2011/02/09 22:24:55 1.5 @@ -95,12 +95,37 @@ .SH EXAMPLES To move all logical extents of any logical volumes on -.B /dev/hda4 -to free physical extents elsewhere in the volume group, giving verbose -runtime information, use: +.B /dev/sdb1 +to free physical extents elsewhere in the volume group, use: .sp -\ pvmove -v /dev/hda4 +\ pvmove /dev/sdb1 +.P +Additionally, the destination device can be specified. .sp +\ pvmove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 +.P +It is possible to perform the action on a single logical volume (instead of all +the logical volumes that might be on the source device), like this: +.sp +\ pvmove -n lvol1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 +.P +Rather than moving the contents of the entire device, it is possible to +move a range of extents. +.sp +\ pvmove /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 +.P +It is possible to move the range of extents to a specific location (as long +as the location has sufficent free extents) - even on the same device. +.sp +\ pvmove /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 /dev/sdc1 +.sp +\ pvmove /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 /dev/sdb1:0-999 +.P +A specific logical volume in a range of extents can also be picked out and +moved. +.sp +\ pvmove -n lvol1 /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 /dev/sdc1 .SH SEE ALSO .BR lvm (8), .BR vgconvert (8) +.BR pvs (8) \ No newline at end of file