Re: [gentoo-user] Moving LVMs around

2007-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:31:35 +, Mick wrote: > This is a data partition, so if I unmount it I guess I can vgrename > it? Do I need to run vgchange -a n first? It wouldn't hurt. I've only done this with VGs that contain system partitions, so I always used a live CD to do it. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving LVMs around

2007-12-05 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:28:27 +, Mick wrote: > > Question re. step 2: Does /dev/sdc1 *have* to be added (vgextend) to > > the same VG_old as /dev/sda5, or could it be added (vgcreate) to a new > > VG_new? > > It has to be added to do a pvmove

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving LVMs around

2007-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:28:27 +, Mick wrote: > Question re. step 2: Does /dev/sdc1 *have* to be added (vgextend) to > the same VG_old as /dev/sda5, or could it be added (vgcreate) to a new > VG_new? It has to be added to do a pvmove. If you want to create a new volume group, you may as well cr

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving LVMs around

2007-12-05 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:24 +, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Could you please hold my hand sorting some LVMs - I have no experience on > > this and would not like to mess it up: > > > > I have create a PV which currently contains /dev/sda

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving LVMs around

2007-12-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:24 +, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Could you please hold my hand sorting some LVMs - I have no experience on > this > and would not like to mess it up: > > I have create a PV which currently contains /dev/sda5. I have also created a > new PV which contains /dev/sdc1

[gentoo-user] Moving LVMs around

2007-12-05 Thread Mick
Hi All, Could you please hold my hand sorting some LVMs - I have no experience on this and would not like to mess it up: I have create a PV which currently contains /dev/sda5. I have also created a new PV which contains /dev/sdc1. I want to move /dev/sda5 (11.9G) to /dev/sdc1 (150G) and then