"Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com> writes:
>> Is it possible to reduce the size of a PV, freeing some space at the
>> end? I can make sure that the end is unused, of course.
>
> No such command implemented yet.
>
> Hack:
> you can use LVM2 and change the text format of the metadata by hand
> before running vgcfgrestore to store it back onto the PVs.
>
> If you want to follow this non-supported path, you want to take a
> copy of the original metadata file in /etc/lvm/backup/ to be able to
> back out gain.
I'm already using lvm2. I noticed the pvresize command, but it just
says it's not implemented yet. Any chance it will be some time soon?
As for editing the metadata, I'm a little confused about the meaning
of some fields. After running vgcfgbackup, I have this in the file:
physical_volumes {
pv0 {
id = "eZV4mb-jk4z-pyfm-tGbJ-mBSW-drRT-ZHtgmn"
device = "/dev/discs/disc0/part2" # Hint only
status = ["ALLOCATABLE"]
pe_start = 65920
pe_count = 1189 # 37.1562 Gigabytes
}
}
What is the meaning of the pe_start field? If I wanted to reduce the
size by, say, 1 GB, would it be correct to reduce pe_count by 32, the
PE size being 32 MB?
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