On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:47 AM, muhammad panji <sumodirjo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have a 4,1TB Logical volume consist of four disks with size of 2TB,
> 1TB, 1TB, and 500GB. The LV currently full. I plan to change the 1Tb
> disks and 500Gb disks. I plan to remove one 1TB disk or the 500GB so
> that I can replace it with 2TB disk. most LVM tutorial ask to use
> pvmove to move phisical extent to the new disk. The problem is that I
> have no SATA port left so that I can't move PE to the new disk. How to
> migrate the data safely so that I can replace the disk? Thank you in
> advance
> regards,
The easiest way would be to move some data off to a USB drive. The
other option would be to dd copy one of the existing disks over to the
2TB disk. Then extend the LVM volume. This would require some disk
swapping and careful planning.
Ryan
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