On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:08:09PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > # pvmove -v /dev/hda10 /dev/hda8 > ... > pvmove -- /dev/hda10 [PE 999 [lvol5 [LE 1365]] -> /dev/hda8 [PE 560] [1/1] > pvmove -- ERROR reading input physical volume "/dev/hda10" (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 A friend gave me the hint to enlarge the partition by one block. It helped, after rebooting to let the kernel reload the partition table, pvmove ran successfully. The partition in question looked like: $ LC_ALL=C fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4867 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 8 64228+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 * 9 518 4096575 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda3 519 4867 34933342+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 519 773 2048256 83 Linux /dev/hda6 774 1283 4096543+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda7 1284 1793 4096543+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda8 1794 2303 4096543+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda9 2304 2813 4096543+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda10 2814 3323 4096543+ 8e Linux LVM NOT WORKING /dev/hda10 2814 3324 4096543+ 8e Linux LVM WORKING [the rest of the drive was already empty] bye, -christian- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
