The administrator who build it is no longer there. That is how it got landed on me On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 7:37 PM, <sub@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Le 24/10/2010 07:38, Unix Administrator a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> Need some procedural steps for removing disks which are used in LVM, > > "pvmove" should be what you are looking for. > > First you need to add a new disk storage at least as big as the one being > used. > >> pvcreate /dev/sdNEW > > Then you need to add these disk to the same VG of the disk you want to get > rid of : > >> vgextend vgX /dev/sdNEW > > Finally you move the old disk data to the new one : > >> pvmove /dev/sdOLD /dev/sdNEW > > If you need to move just a LV on the PV and not the whole PV you can use the > "-n" option : > >> pvmove -n <LV_NAME> /dev/sdOLD /dev/sdNEW > > Then you can delete the PV and delete the disk hosting the PV. If you can't > because it's on an active VG, use "vgreduce" to push the PV out of the VG. > >> vgreduce vgX /dev/sdOLD > > These method has the advantage of moving the data with the filesystem > mounted and active. > >> further these are disks from the SAN. The other wall i have hit is >> some of them come from vaware storage pools. I cannot stat the wwid's >> of these devices. How do i exactly pinpoint to the vmdisk and tell the >> vm admin which one i'm getting rid of. >> Environment is RHEL 4 and 5 > > Well, you should have keep tabs of which VMware storage going where! > > Nicolas > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list