On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:37:35PM +0100, Rupert Hair wrote: > I have just received a nice new disk and I would like to use it to > replace one of my PVs. This would be no problem (it is well documented > in the HOWTO) but I would like to put the new disk in place of the old > one on the IDE cable. (i.e. one of my PVs is currently /dev/hdd1 and I > would like to copy the data from that onto the new disk and then put the > new disk on /dev/hdd) > > So my question is really can I change where LVM is expecting to find a > PV? LVM identifies PVs by the metadata on the disk, not its location in the /dev/ tree. As such you are free to move disks around as much as you want, just run 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/
