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On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Stirling Westrup wrote:

> Okay. What if I don't care where the PE's end up? Can I just say:
> 
> pvmove /dev/sda:1000-1500 /dev/sdb
> 
> and assume it will do something reasonable? I currently don't have any
> fragmentation anywhere, so I would hope this would just work.

Use the test option to see what it would do without actually doing it.

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