Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > <<<SNIP>>> > > 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 > > <<<SNIP>>> > > Thanks in advance. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Well, I started this move this morning. I added the 6TB drive hardware wise, then used pv commands to add it and to move the data to the 6TB drive. When that was done, move took about 6 hours, I resized the file system and now have this: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/Home2-Home2 8.1T 3.9T 4.2T 48% /home Now I have some breathing room. It really was that easy. I'm shocked. lol I might add, I bought this external enclosure. https://www.ebay.com/itm/External-3-5-SATA-USB-3-0-eSATA-Hard-Drive-Enclosure-80-mm-Variable-Speed-F/381043280186 It has a fan and a nifty display. Claims it has a alarm if the temps get to high too. I hope I never hear that. I stuck my 8TB drive in it for my backup drive. If my maths are correct, this will last me a couple years. I guess I'll swap the other 3TB drive for another 6TB drive then. Then rinse and repeat until this rig dies or I do one. :/ By the way, my BIOS doesn't support the NVME drives. I'd have to get a new mobo for that. Bummer. Thanks to all who helped. Dale :-) :-)
