On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 08:04:35PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I think that my old disk is dying and I want to get the data off of > it before that happens. I just had the system drop out of X-windows > and lock up completely. >
[...] > The old drive is /dev/sda and there are two PVs on the disk > /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda4, both are in vg1 > > The new drive is /dev/sdc and it has only 1 LVM PV and that is /dev/sdc4 > [...] > > Is this the correct method to preserve my data: > > pvmove /dev/sda3 /dev/sdc4 > > wait for it to finish > > pvmove /dev/sda4 /dev/sdc4 > > once that has finished > > vgreduce vg1 /dev/sda3 > vgreduce vg1 /dev/sda4 > > pvremove /dev/sda3 > pvremove /dev/sda4 > > > I really need to know that this is the correct procedure and get > this done as quickly as possible. I don't want to lose data. > This is the method I use. pvmove fails sometimes, you just need to restart it and it will continue where it stopped. Philippe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120507065726.ga17...@ozigo.org
