On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 17:50 +0200, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > Hi Guys, > > the subject says it all, but i'll go into more detail now, if anyone > would be interested in helping. I currently have my system installed on > 2 40GB IDE drives. They are in an LVM volumegroup, and the 2 drives are > striped. What i need to do is transform this "striped disk cluster" > into a mirror. (preferably using the most cheapest and painless > method). I kind of know my way around LVM, so i don't really need a > _totally_ detailed answer, but i need to know, if this that i am trying > to accomplish is > a) possible > b) what are the steps that i should follow in order to do this? > > I was thinking like this: use pvmove or something to move all of the > pv's from one disk to the other, then reduce the volumegroup (remove > the disk eg physical volume from it) add it as a mirror...
Seems to me the best way to do this would be a third Disk. Is this an option?? > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:46:15 up 21:42, 7 users, load average: 1.93, 1.68, 1.21 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
