2001-12-28 23:01:35, Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> wrote: >On Dec 28, 2001 22:27 +0100, Anders Widman wrote: >> This is my current setup: >> >> 14 physical disks in one logical volume (share) formated with reiserfs, >> in one volumegroup (server). There are no free physical extents, though >> there are about 150GB free space in the filesystem. >> I want to remove one physical disk and have all data moved over to the >> remaining disks. > >You need to run resize_reiserfs (on the unmounted filesystem) to reduce the >size of the filesystem by _at_least_ the size of the disk you want to >remove. Then, after the filesystem is shrunk, you run lvreduce to reduce >the size of the LV. Shrink the LV no more than you shrunk the filesystem >or you will have problems*. > >After this, you need to run "pvmove -v <pv>" to remove any PEs that are >in use on this disk to other disks. You should have enough free PEs at >this point because you reduced the size of the LV enough to remove the disk. >Finally, run "vgreduce <pv>" to remove the (now unused) PV from the VG and >you are set.` > >Cheers, Andreas > >(*) Normally, what I would do is overshrink the fs, shrink the LV > conservatively, then expand the fs to fill the rest of the LV again. >-- >Andreas Dilger >http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ >http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > > > Thanks, this worked great! //Anders
