Il giorno mer, 16/09/2009 alle 11.19 -0700, malahal@us.ibm.com ha scritto: > Ambrogio De Lorenzo [ambrogio.de.lorenzo@alice.it] wrote: > > Hi all. > > I'm doing a big upgrade on my computer and I tryed to use lv mirroring > > to obtain a copy of my data before to do it. > > > > As I do with LVM on other OS i thought that after mirroring one could > > chose to split the mirrored lv. > > > > I can't find how to do it with LVM2 on Linux. > > snapshot may be a good fit in this case, but if you insist you can use > lvconvert to convert your linear volume to a mirrored volume. Once the > sync is complete, you can use the same lvconvert to convert the mirror > volume to a linear one. But with this I loose the secondary copy. It's not a good idea. Backup and destroy backup :-) Bye Ambrogio _______________________________________________ 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/
