Igor Cicimov <icici...@gmail.com> writes: > On 13/11/2014 8:27 AM, "lee" <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> what's the best way to move existing logical volumes or a whole volume >> group to new disks? >> >> The target disks cannot be installed at the same time as the source >> disks. I will have to make some sort of copy over the network to >> another machine, remove the old disks, install the new disks and put the >> copy in place. >> >> Using dd doesn't seem to be a good option because extend sizes in the >> old VG can be different from the extend sizes used in the new VG. >> >> The LVs contain VMs. The VMs can be shut down during the migration. >> It's not possible to make snapshots because the VG is full. >> >> New disks will be 6x1TB RAID-5, old ones are 2x74GB RAID-1 on a >> ServeRaid 8k. No more than 6 discs can be installed at the same time. >> >> >> -- >> Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons >> might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: https://lists.debian.org/874mu4cei0....@yun.yagibdah.de >> > How about this, sdf is one of the new disks sdb is old that needs > replacement: > > Attach sdf and add it to the vg
Afaik it's rather difficult, if not impossible, to convince a ServeRaid 8k controller to present disks as JBOD. If I could somehow install a 7th disk, moving would be much easier ... The only USB disk I have is broken. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/8761ejq6yv....@yun.yagibdah.de
