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From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@bmsi.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgmerge with different physical extent sizes
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:53:54 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1012241347320.23184@bmsred.bmsi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1293091697.20485.12.camel@corn.betterworld.us>

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, Ross Boylan wrote:

> What happens if you vgmerge 2 VG's and they have different physical
> extent sizes?

The man page says it should fail.  It's possible that if everything
lines up, it automatically changes the extent size of either the
source or destination VG.

It is possible to change the PE size with vgchange (some lvresizing/pvmoving
may be required and must be done manually).

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-12-24 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-23  8:08 [linux-lvm] vgmerge with different physical extent sizes Ross Boylan
2010-12-24 18:53 ` Stuart D. Gathman [this message]

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