On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:08:04PM +0200, Denie Andriessen wrote: > Hi, > > I had that same problem/miscalculation once.. > > What I wanted to do was, to create a new volumegroup, that only holds the > last (new) disk(s) that you want to add. > Then, move as much as possible of the data to the new disk, scrink the old > volume as much as possible (e2fsadm first, then vgreduce old voulme, PVmove, > vgextend on the new volume, e2fsadm on the new volume, repeat untill done.. > last go, vgremove old volumegroup, and presto..It takes quite a while to > complete, depending on the size of your volume..... (and I was in the > situation that the disk I added was larger then the largest partition I had > in the initial situation.. > > Good tip: Try and test it with the empty space on the new disk first ! Good plan! Thanks, Frank _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
