Re: RAID+LVM migration, need help

Bill Mair wrote: I was looking into other options available. Considering that I am already using LVM, one that caught my eye is pvmove and the other was snapshots. Snapshots don't work the way I thought, but oh well you live and learn. I used pvmove after updating to LVM2. It worked l

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

Steve Lamb wrote: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Ok, I get your message, but for my gratification, insight and knowledge of Linux how do I get the programs to run without error and not distroy my harddisk? I'd say you're not getting the message. You don't need to do it. Period. Full st

Re: RAID+LVM migration, need help

Thanks for the input David, and yes backups are always good :) I was looking into other options available. Considering that I am already using LVM, one that caught my eye is pvmove and the other was snapshots. 1) pvmove Add the new RAID01 md to the existing vgroot and then pvmove the data fro