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 SMTP id i22AVF804058 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 05:31:15 -0500 Received: from pegasus.siol.net (pegasus.siol.net [193.189.160.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i22AVEb09286 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 05:31:14 -0500 Received: from kudu.siol.net ([10.10.10.22]) by pegasus.siol.net (InterMail vK.4.03.05.03 201-232-132-103 license 1cbf71897a39210db31154c99f0b4628) with ESMTP id <20040302103113.GRWH15612.pegasus@kudu.siol.net> for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:31:13 +0100 Received: from vector ([193.77.156.30]) by kudu.siol.net (InterMail vK.4.03.05.03 201-232-132-103 license 1cbf71897a39210db31154c99f0b4628) with SMTP id <20040302103113.GAHD1595.kudu@vector> for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:31:13 +0100 Message-ID: <001301c40041$7fdeab30$0400a8c0@vector> From: "Perplexer" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] What if a drive dies ? Sender: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Mar 2 05:29:07 2004 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Hello. I'm sorry if I ask something that's be asked a million times before but I prefer answers to my specific questions. I hope someone will try to help. I have a VG with several differently sized PVs and one LV. It is working fine but I am affraid that one day one of the drives would fail. I'd like to know what I'll be looking at when that happens. What if one drive would fail in that VG ? Can I remove it and 'repair' the VG/LV to run on with one drive less (data is written in striped mode). That would mean I got my VG/LV back on-line but the data that was on the bad disk would be missing (a small price to pay actually). Would I need to resize the filesystem again with some tool or anything special ? Thanks for the answer(s). --------- Perplexer