Hi Malahal Thanks for your reply. I don't really want to use the new/temporary disc long-term, it seems that pvmove needs space to create a mirror-lv whilst it is working and it seemed possible that the original problem was that this extra space wasn't there. # pvscan PV /dev/sdb2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [27.75 GB / 960.00 MB free] PV /dev/sda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [314.97 GB / 30.84 GB free] PV /dev/sdd3 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [52.50 GB / 52.50 GB free] Total: 3 [395.22 GB] / in use: 3 [395.22 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] This shows that sda2 has enough PEs free to take sdb2 ultimately and sdd3 should have enough space to hold any sensible mirror lv. I am using an upgraded Fedora 11 installation (from Fedora 8 using preupgrade) with lvm version LVM version: 2.02.48 (2009-06-30) Library version: 1.02.33 (2009-06-30) Driver version: 4.14.0 I will try a posting to dm-devel as you suggest. Thanks Nick On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 18:29 -0700, malahal@us.ibm.com wrote: > Nicholas Robinson [npr@bottlehall.co.uk] wrote: > > > > Nick > > > > # pvmove -vv /dev/sdb2 /dev/sda2 > > You can just specify 'pvmove -vv /dev/sdb2' to allow it to allocate on > your new disk as well or you can do > 'pvmove -vv /dev/sdb2 /dev/sda2 /dev/<yourNewPVname>' to allow it to > allocate on the new PV as well. What distro and what version of LVM and > device package are you using. Someone may help if you post it to > dm-devel mailing list. > > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
