From: "Harik A'ttar" <harik@chaos.ao.net>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Removing a Bad disk from LVM w/o a new disk
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 11:18:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4471D65D.3090908@chaos.ao.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1148307855.28182.4.camel@neuromancer.home.net>
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Current situation is that I have a bad disk /dev/sdb1 in an existing lvm
> partition. (sda1/sda4/sdb1)
>
> I would like to remove it from the VG. (There are no free PE anywhere.
> I've maxed it out.)
>
> I've already reduced the existing VG to the size of sda1+sda4
> partition.
> $vgreduce storage /dev/sdb1
> Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" still in use
You mean you reduced the existing LVs?
Try this:
pvmove -v /dev/sdb1
That will move all the data off sdb1 to the other drives. You need
dm-mirror either compiled in your kernel or as a module to use it.
Read the manpage for more information.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-22 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-22 14:24 [linux-lvm] Removing a Bad disk from LVM w/o a new disk Ow Mun Heng
2006-05-22 15:18 ` Harik A'ttar [this message]
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