On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 11:54:31 -0500, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 11:21:12AM -0500, BK Box wrote: > > I have a pretty lengthy explanation.. so i'll just post the link to it. > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=206391 > > Summary: How do I pvmove data with LVM2 if contiguous runs of > PEs in the source LVs will have to be split up to make them fit? > > Quick answer: > LVM2 doesn't support this directly yet: it's being worked on. > Until it's done you need to edit the metadata [using vgcfg*] > to split the segments into smaller ones before running pvmove. > [Might also need to recompile disabling section merging code > which would undo your splitting.] > > Alasdair > -- > agk@redhat.com > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > Thank you very much, I'm glad I finally got an answer. I have another question for you now... All I seem to have is vgcfgrestore and vgcfgbackup.. but by reading the man pages I don't see how they edit the metadata. Is there another vgcfg that I am missing? Thank you _______________________________________________ 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/
