RE: Can I dd one disc of a lv

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



> I have 3 discs, two 180 GB and one 200 GB drive, every drive 
> is one Partion with a one PV which builds a 560 GB VG from that I 
> get a 500 GB LV.
> 
> Now the 200 GB hdd is faulty. But I have no change to extend the 
> LV, because the Max LV Size is 512 GB. So pvmove isn't 
> possible. But I have another 200 GB Drive in my system. 
> 
> Now the question: Can I "dd" the faulty 200 GB drive to the 
> new 200 GB drive? And if, how? Does "dd if=/dev/hde1 
> of=/dev/hdf1" the job, or what have I to do?
If they are of exact the same size (best would be the same drive) you can do
a "dd if=/dev/hde of=/dev/hdf" and then remove the faulty drive. Should
work.

Greets,
Steffen

_______________________________________________
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/

[Index of Archives]     [Gluster Users]     [Kernel Development]     [Linux Clusters]     [Device Mapper]     [Security]     [Bugtraq]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]

  Powered by Linux