[linux-lvm] Removing a physical volume.

[Anders Widman]

2001-12-28 23:01:35, Andreas Dilger <adilger at turbolabs.com> wrote:

>On Dec 28, 2001  22:27 +0100, Anders Widman wrote:
>> This is my current setup:
>> 
>> 14 physical disks in one logical volume (share) formated with reiserfs,
>> in one volumegroup (server). There are no free physical extents, though
>> there are about 150GB free space in the filesystem.
>> I want to remove one physical disk and have all data moved over to the
>> remaining disks.
>
>You need to run resize_reiserfs (on the unmounted filesystem) to reduce the
>size of the filesystem by _at_least_ the size of the disk you want to
>remove.  Then, after the filesystem is shrunk, you run lvreduce to reduce
>the size of the LV.  Shrink the LV no more than you shrunk the filesystem
>or you will have problems*.
>
>After this, you need to run "pvmove -v <pv>" to remove any PEs that are
>in use on this disk to other disks.  You should have enough free PEs at
>this point because you reduced the size of the LV enough to remove the disk.
>Finally, run "vgreduce <pv>" to remove the (now unused) PV from the VG and
>you are set.`
>
>Cheers, Andreas
>
>(*) Normally, what I would do is overshrink the fs, shrink the LV
>    conservatively, then expand the fs to fill the rest of the LV again.
>--
>Andreas Dilger
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
>http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
>
>
>

Thanks, this worked great!

//Anders