From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:16:34 +0200 From: Ulrich Wiederhold Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] replace bad hard disc Message-ID: <20011016121634.A2856@sky.net> References: <110278234233.20011015163039@difi.de> <20011016105533.A4318@sistina.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011016105533.A4318@sistina.com> 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: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com * Heinz J . Mauelshagen [011016 10:55]: > > Stefan, > > add a new hard drive to your system and create (at least) an LVM partition > (Type 0x8E) on it. Let's call the new one /dev/sde1 and your flaky one > /dev/sdd1 just for the purpose of this example. > > Then: > > pvcreate /dev/sde1 > vgextend Stonki2 /dev/sde1 > pvmove /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 > vgreduce Stonki2 /dev/sdd1 > Hello, will pvmove work if /dev/sde1 is already added to Stonki2 if there is enough space available on /dev/sde1 ? Reason: I have a vg containing 5 HDs that includes a small 4GB one. I would like to remove this one without adding another HD. Enough space is available. Regards Uli -- 'The box said, 'Requires Windows 95 or better', so i installed Linux - TKK 5