-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm trying to pvmove from a dying disk to a new disk. I'm using version 1.0.7 of the LVM tools. I know that the source disk has bad sectors on it. I figured one of two things would happen with the pvmove: 1) pvmove would work fine up to the bad sectors, where it would error with I/O read errors. I would then restart the pvmove with PEs that are past the bad sectors on the source disk and things would finish. 2) pvmove would work fine up to the bad sectors, where it would encounter I/O read errors. pvmove would report the errors and say the data is lost/corrupt, but continue reading valid/skipping bad sectors until it finished. I fear that I'm being naive about how pvmove will handle bad sectors... At any rate, the error I'm getting is: [root@mills tools]# ./pvmove -vv /dev/sdb1 pvmove -- checking name of source physical volume "/dev/sdb1" pvmove -- locking logical volume manager pvmove -- reading data of source physical volume from "/dev/sdb1" pvmove -- checking volume group existence pvmove -- reading data of volume group "vg1" from lvmtab pvmove -- checking volume group consistency of "vg1" pvmove -- searching for source physical volume "/dev/sdb1" in volume group "vg1" pvmove -- building list of possible destination physical volumes pvmove -- checking volume group activity pvmove -- moving physical extents in active volume group "vg1" 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 -- starting to move extents away from physical volume "/dev/sdb1" pvmove -- checking for enough free physical extents in "vg1" lv: /dev/vg1/lv7[7] old_dev: 08:17 new_dev: 08:33 old_pe_sector: 4186488 new_pe_sector: 4186488 pvmove -- opening output physical volume "/dev/sdc1" pvmove -- llseeking input physical volume "/dev/sdb1" pvmove -- llseeking output physical volume "/dev/sdc1" pvmove -- /dev/sdb1 [PE 510 [lv7 [LE 5650]] -> /dev/sdc1 [PE 510] [1/4590] pvmove -- locking physical extent 510 of "/dev/sdb1" in kernel pvmove -- about to read input physical volume "/dev/sdb1" and to write output physical volume "/dev/sdc1" pvmove -- ERROR reading input physical volume "/dev/sdb1" (still 131072 bytes to read) pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move_pe(): read input PV" moving physical extents When I try to specify any random PE > 510 I get: [root@mills tools]# ./pvmove -vv /dev/sdb1:530 /dev/sdc1 pvmove -- checking name of source physical volume "/dev/sdb1" pvmove -- locking logical volume manager pvmove -- reading data of source physical volume from "/dev/sdb1" pvmove -- checking volume group existence pvmove -- reading data of volume group "vg1" from lvmtab pvmove -- checking volume group consistency of "vg1" pvmove -- searching for source physical volume "/dev/sdb1" in volume group "vg1" pvmove -- building list of possible destination physical volumes pvmove -- checking destination physical volume names in command line pvmove -- checking volume group activity pvmove -- moving physical extents in active volume group "vg1" 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 -- starting to move extents away from physical volume "/dev/sdb1" pvmove -- checking for enough free physical extents in "vg1" lv: /dev/vg1/lv7[7] old_dev: 08:17 new_dev: 08:33 old_pe_sector: 4350328 new_pe_sector: 4186488 pvmove -- opening output physical volume "/dev/sdc1" pvmove -- llseeking input physical volume "/dev/sdb1" pvmove -- llseeking output physical volume "/dev/sdc1" pvmove -- /dev/sdb1 [PE 530 [lv7 [LE 5670]] -> /dev/sdc1 [PE 510] [1/1] pvmove -- locking physical extent 530 of "/dev/sdb1" in kernel pvmove -- about to read input physical volume "/dev/sdb1" and to write output physical volume "/dev/sdc1" pvmove -- ERROR reading input physical volume "/dev/sdb1" (still 4194304 bytes to read) pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move_pe(): read input PV" moving physical extents Is there anything I can do to get the pvmove to finish? Thanks, Tim - -- Tim Randles Unix Administrator and Webmaster The Ohio State University Department of Physics Computing Facility Phone: 292-2630 Email: tcr@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu PGP key: http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~tcr/pgp.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+3hb5NMldGYWjmgoRAvG9AKDW6YmXjFOxj77lxwV3PNeO4VWbnwCfbjh0 cpfrctuKsARxpsPImzopeoQ= =IyrK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/