[Madlug] lvm question

[Jeremy Carroll]

Yes you can, but it's not automated. Add the new disk to the volume group, the move the extents on the disk you want to remove to the new volume (pvmove)

Follow these directions.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/removeadisk.html



You cannot "Shrink" an LVM partition just by removing a physical volume from a volume group.


On 11/10/08 9:17 PM, "Moji" <lordmoji at gmail.com> wrote:


I just added more and I want to remove some old drives and re-purpose them. If I have 4 terabytes and then I add a 1T drive and then remo


Jeremy Carroll
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