On Tuesday 31 January 2006 01:17, Tom Lanyon wrote: > I need to move all the data off of my external scsi array and remove it > from my volume group. > The external array is /dev/cciss/c1d0p0, so I issued a pvmove with the Sounds straightforward. > following results: > >/sbin/sh-2.05b# pvscan > >pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > >pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/cciss/c1d0p1" of VG "Volume0" [99.99 GB / > > 99.99 GB Free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/cciss/c0d0p2" of VG > > "Volume0" [136.61 GB / 68.89 GB Free] pvscan -- total: 2 [236.62 GB] / in > > use: 2 [236.62 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] I don't see /dev/cciss/c1d0p0 in the pvscan output. It does show that /dev/cciss/c1d0p1 is unused. Also /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 is much larger than c1d0p1. > >/sbin/sh-2.05b# pvmove /dev/cciss/c1d0p1 Is this what you mean? pvmove will remove all extents used on the specified PV off of it. > I've tried a --force but that didn't help. I'm unclear about what device you are trying to reduce....... A little more clarity please. -- Zac Slade _______________________________________________ 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/