In <[🔎] 20090316183713.GA511@fuchs>, André Berger wrote: >My plan is to create a Logical Volume Group to span two partitions >located on different disks, and export that LV group via NFS. If I >got it right (please correct me), I need partitions of type 8e on >both disks. LVM is happy to use any block device as a PV. I use whole disks in some cases and partitions in other cases. Even if you are using partitions, they don't have to be of type 8e normally. (I have found some installer programs that don't like it when your PVs are not partitions of type 8e, but I consider those broken; the LVM core is not picky in that regard.) >So I thought I > >1 partition disk2 8e >2 create a LV group and add disk2/p1 to it 2a Create a PV from disk2/p1 2b Create a VG containing one PV, disk2/p1 2c Create a LV from that VG. >3 create an ext3 filesystem on the LV >3 copy the data from disk1/p1 to the LV >4 partition disk1/p1 8e >5 add disk1/p1 to the LV group 5a Create a PV from disk1/p1 5b Extend the existing VG by adding disk1/p1 >6 resize the LV ext3 filesystem to 2 TB, so it spans both disks resp. > partitions >Does this sound right to you? Maybe you could help me with the >necessary command as well... # disk1/p1 = /dev/sda1 # disk2/p1 = /dev/sdb1 pvcreate /dev/sdb1 vgcreate vg_name /dev/sdb1 lvcreate -L size -n lv_name vg_name mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/vg_name-lv_name mkdir /mnt/old mkdir /mnt/new mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/old mount /dev/mapper/vg_name-lv_name /mnt/new rsync -aHAX --progress --stats /mnt/old/. /mnt/new/. umount /mnt/old umount /mnt/new # Entirely optional. pvcreate /dev/sda1 vgextend vg_name /dev/sda1 lvextend -L new_size vg_name/lv_name I think that's correct, but I'm not looking at a man page right now and it's been a while since I needed to extend a VG. >What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is >available? The entire VG is unavailable. It can be manually brought up in partial mode. In partial mode, only the LVs that reside entirely on available disks will be available -- they must have NO sectors allocated on unavailable disks. In a disaster recovery scenario, it is possible to insert a different device (/dev/zero might work, usually a new disk is better) as the missing PV, but this should be a last-resort behavior. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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