On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 06:04:05AM +0000, Rickard Olsson wrote: > Trond Michelsen wrote: > > > Recently a harddrive in my LVM started giving me read-errors, so > > naturally I wanted to replace the drive with a new one. > > I recently went through this (with the added complication of some bad > metadata) and you have a few options. > > The best one may be to use dd (with NOERROR) to raw copy the contents > from the old disk to a new one of the same size and then use the new one > when doing the pvmove. > > Another path is to upgrade to LVM2 (you may have to do this anyway, I > needed some functionality in the LVM2 pvcreate to pull my stunt off) and > use the "partial" feature. I haven't tried this myself. > > There are more details of my tribulations just a few weeks back in the > list archives, but feel free to ask if there's something missing (I had > some private conversations with Heinz on the topic as well). Thanks, but is it really necessary to copy the PE at all? It's broken, and I don't care about that 8MB of data. Isn't it possible to just reassign the LE that's mapped to the broken PE to a completely empty PE at some other disk? At the moment I'm a bit tempted to just set up a new VG, and migrate data from the old VG file by file, disk by disk. -- // Trond Michelsen \X/ mike@crusaders.no _______________________________________________ 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/
