On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 03:27:31 -0600, Dale wrote: > Now to the second question. I found a 8TB hard drive and bought it. My > plan is to take my 6TB backup drive and install it in place of a 3TB > drive which has LVM on it. I plan to use the 8TB drive as a external > backup drive in the end. Will do a backup before changing internal > drives tho. From what I've read, I can use pvmove and pvremove to > replace that drive. Just tell pv to move the data and when done, remove > the old drive. After that, the new 6TB drive will be used in that PV and > the 3TB drive can be used for something else. Is it really that easy or > is there more to it than that? Pardon me but that doesn't sound > complicated enough to me. lol
It's been a while since I did that but AFAIR, yes it is that simple. pvmove does all the hard work and it can take a while, but it can survive an interruption. -- Neil Bothwick Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
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