On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:08:09PM +0100, Spam wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:45:54PM +0100, Spam wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> Is it possible to use dd/dd_rescue to simply copy a PV to a new disk > >> that is slightly (16MiB)larger? > >> > >> The old pv is on /dev/hdb1 and the new disk is /dev/hdc and is > >> unpartitioned so far. How would I proceed to make this work? > > > Following procedure to make it happen: > > > o partition the new disk with 1 partition of _exactly_ > > the same size (in units of sectors) as /dev/hdb1 > > > o dd(_rescue) content over > > o remove the old disk > > o vgscan > > o vgchange -ay > > Great! Thank you. Now I know who to blame if things does not work ;) Right, unless you didn't follow the steps exactly _and_ removed all mistakes ;-) > > //Anders > > >> > >> This might seem odd to do as I could perhaps use pvmove, but pvmove > >> requires the whole vg to be present in the system, right? > >> > >> //Anders > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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/
