I actually did a "pvmove -v /dev/..." and so far after 5 days all I see is: pvmove -- checking name of source physical volume "/dev/....." pvmove -- locking logical volume manager and that is it. Its been at 80-98% cpu the whole time too. I have a feeling something is wrong. bjz On Tuesday 05 August 2003 17:58, Scott Mcdermott wrote: > B. J. Zolp on Tue 5/08 17:54 -0500: > > I have to remove 4 120GB IDE drives from a LVM on a P2 > > 450Mhz machine. I have been pvmoving one of them for > > about the last 5 days. Is this a normal time frame? How > > much longer can I expect? > > you should see progress (i think it gives some progress > without -v iirc), just estimate based on moved PE / total PE > and compare to elapsed time. > > with LVM1 at least, it's quite slow, but I moved 40G in > less than 4 hours, so... > > one thing that threw me, was that it doesn't start moving > for a LONG time and there is no output. I had very > important data, so I didn't kill it, because I knew it was > doing stuff based on wchan :) > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
