On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:28:04PM +0200, FEJF wrote: > hi, > i search through the mailing list and found this question few times... and i > have also this problem atm and i didn't find a solution, i want to ask if > there is one now ? or perhaps will installing of lvm1.0.1-rc2 help (currently > using 0.9.1_beta7) ? > > root@bolm:[/x] # pvmove /dev/hdh1 > pvmove -- moving physical extents in active volume group "vg01" > pvmove -- WARNING: if you lose power during the move you may need to restore > your LVM metadata from backup! > pvmove -- do you want to continue? [y/n] y > pvmove -- ERROR reading input physical volume "/dev/hdh1" (still 65536 bytes > to read) > > pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move_pe(): read input PV" pv_move_pe > > pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move_pe(): read input PV" moving physical extents This could be because of a disk-error. Do you have io-errors in /var/log/messages? If so, you will have to modify pvmove to not give up after read-errors. Maybe a '--ignore-read-errors' option should be added? -- Ragnar Kjørstad Big Storage