Nicholas Robinson [npr@bottlehall.co.uk] wrote: > > pvmove followed by vgreduce. If you have enough free space, pvmove > > should work and there is no need to add another new drive. > > > Thanks, I will give this a go. I think I was getting confused between > allocated and used. I thought the destination PV had to have enough > unallocated extents on it to absorb the old PV data rather than just > unused. Allocated PEs is the number of PEs allocated to logical volumes, Free PE's is the number PEs not yet allocated. Free PEs+Allocated PEs = Total PEs. I think you have enough free PEs to cover the old drive if I remember your output correctly. > I tried mounting it as you suggest and it muttered about it looking like > swap. So, I checked and it is mounted as swap! That explains that one. > The newer naming convention of ...lv_swap would have made this much > clearer! That explains why the '#open count is 1" in your lvdisplay output! Thanks, Malahal. _______________________________________________ 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/
