On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Steve Wray wrote: > Replying to my own post, I have found and installed > the patches from; > http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/dm/ > specifically; > http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/dm/patches/2.6-unstable/2.6.6-rc2/2.6.6-rc2-udm1. > tar.bz2 > > to a pristine 2.6.6 kernel, configured it appropriately, > compiled and booted from it; pvmove still doesn't work. > > Is there any special magick I need to apply or documentation > that I'm missing? Do I need to update my version of pvmove > (currently at; > > pvmove --version > LVM version: 2.00.08 (2003-11-14) > Library version: 1.00.07-ioctl (2003-11-21) > Driver version: 4.0.0) > (although that is as booted with the mandrake 2.6.3-13 kernel, > not the 2.6.6 + dm patches kernel) > > Thanks! > > (and these disks are failing; I need to decommission them ASAP, > if I can't pvmove the extents on them or move the files which occupy > extents on them, then I am in trouble). > I've had a problem with a pvmove failing because of errors on the disk, so I couldn't use pvmove at all. First I do a lvdisplay -v on the lv's, and find which ones are on the disk I need to remove. Then I create a new lv and specify a different pv to put it on. Usually that meant I had to add a new disk and vgextend. Then I copy all the files onto the new lv, usually using (cd /old/vol; tar cf - .)|(cd /new/vol; tar xvpf -). Then I removed the old lv's, vgreduce, then I could remove the old disk. It might be a long way, but it works. l _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
