In <[🔎] 4DDE7E85.50304@heard.name>, Ken Heard wrote: >In a box with Squeeze I have one volume group (VG1) with only one (at >the moment) physical volume (/dev/md1). Two of the six current logical >volumes (LV) in VG1 are are /dev/VG1/root (/) and /dev/VG1/usr. I want >to (1) enlarge /dev/VG1/root, (2) transfer the contents of /dev/VG1/usr >to it, and (3) remove /dev/VG1/usr. > >Enlarging /dev/VG1/root is easy (I think) using the lvextend command, >and so is removing /dev/VG1/usr using the lvremove command. What I >cannot find is any command or information to do the second step, >transfer the entire contents of one LV to another. Is it possible to do >what I want to do? You would do that via cp, rsync, etc. Something like this could work: mount -o bind / /mnt # view of the / file systems without any other mounts under /mnt mount -o remount,ro /usr # Make sure no one is writing to the /usr file system rsync -HaAxX --progress --stats /usr/. /mnt/usr # Copy the data, including hard links, acls, and extended attributes umount /mnt # Remove the view sync;sync;sync # Precaution umount /usr # Fully unmount /usr, exposing the copy created on the / file system Why doesn't LVM do this? Because, you might not put file systems on LVs and it doesn't understand the dozen different file systems you might have on the two LVs, even if they are both file systems. LVM operates at the LE / PE (block) level, it doesn't really understand anything besides that. vgmerge exists because that can be handled at the block level basically by rewriting all the metadata on one VG. We can know that is the correct operation because only LVM itself reads / writes that metadata. lvmerge could certainly be done at the block level, but then the file systems or device mapper devices or whatever you put on top of your LVs could be confused. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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