Dieter, the first write to hda2 fails. Could be a hardware installation problem with your new drive. Have you tested if you can access hda2 fine without LVM ? Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:32:27AM +0100, Dieter Stueken wrote: > I just got my new 240GB disk and want to move my VG to it. > Unfortunately I get an unexpected error: > > lv: /dev/backup/mirror[2] old_dev: 22:00 new_dev: 03:02 > old_pe_sector: 117703032 new_pe_sector: 357564792 > pvmove -- opening output physical volume "/dev/hda2" > pvmove -- llseeking input physical volume "/dev/hdc" > pvmove -- llseeking output physical volume "/dev/hda2" > pvmove -- /dev/hdc [PE 897 [mirror [LE 2727]] -> /dev/hda2 [PE 2727] [1/247] > pvmove -- locking physical extent 897 of "/dev/hdc" in kernel > pvmove -- about to read input physical volume "/dev/hdc" and to write > output physical volume "/dev/hda2" > pvmove -- ERROR writing output physical volume "/dev/hda2" (still > 12648448 bytes to write) > pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move_pe(): writing output PE" moving physical extents > > this time I can not identify any reason an no messages on syslog. > Any idea? What informations should I dump/post in addition? > > I'm using SuSE8.1 with kernel 2.4.20, the LVM-version is 1.0.5. > > ... and, sorry for my ill formed subject line from last week. > > Dieter > -- > Dieter Stüken, con terra GmbH, Münster > stueken@conterra.de > http://www.conterra.de/ > (0)251-7474-501 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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/