I'm trying to use pvmove to move data from a 300 GB S-ATA disk onto four, smaller 120 GB IDE disks. However, pvmove tells me that it cannot allocate enough contiguous PEs to fit 300 GB, like this: # pvmove /dev/sde1 Insufficient contiguous allocatable extents (28617) for logical volume pvmove0: 71541 required Unable to allocate temporary LV for pvmove. I can, of course, understand that it can't find contiguous PEs corresponding to 300 GB, but I don't understand why it should need it to be contiguous. Can pvmove not just divide that storage into three "partitions", each fitting on one 120 GB disk, and move them? Is there a way for me to tell it to do so? I seem to be able to use something like "pvmove /dev/sde1:0-28616" to tell pvmove manually to do this for me, but this poses a small problem for me, as not all of the data on the disks I want to move from are allocated where I know them to be. This particular disk is fully allocated, so that I know what I could do with that syntax, but is there really no way to tell pvmove to do this automatically? It just seems kind of strange to me. Fredrik Tolf _______________________________________________ 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/
