On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:14:59PM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: > > I have an existing LVM setup over 3 hard drives, > hda, hdc, hde, with PV's and VG's set up just so. > > I wish to add a new drive as the new hda, shifting > the other drives down the chain such that the old hda > becomes the new hdb and so forth. > > The new drive will have new VG's on its PV's with > no overlap; no PV on the new drive will be part > of any VG on the old drives. > > Is it just a simple matter of doing the > vgchange -an <volume group>, vgexport <volume group>, > shutdown & move the drives, reboot, > install Linux onto the new drive and then > pvscan, vgimport <volume group> <physical volumes> > dance? > > Or are there any gotchas to be aware of? You don't need to export/import if you are just moving devices around. Just vgscan after moving them. - Joe _______________________________________________ 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/
