[linux-lvm] Urgent, Moving disk from hdc to hdf in existing lvm

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

Kalle,

any configuration change schould be happily covered by "vgscan ; vgchange -ay".

vgscan figures out all PVs by UUID and groupd them together no matter to
which changed path they are attached.

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --


On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 06:19:27AM -0500, kalle at idlar.nu wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> We have a problem with one of our servers thats running lvm on linux-2.4.19.
> We have 4 discs in the vg, hdb, hdc, hdg and hdh.
> When we booted the server this morning hdc did not get online. 
> We've tried diffrent cables but there seems to be some problem with the secondary controller.
> The disc gets online if we put it on the promise controller thats handeling hdg and hdh.
> 
> Is it possible to "reconfigure" the vg so that the disk that once was hdc will be hdf? Prefably without loosing data.
> 
> Unfortunately we dont have any spare box to move the disks to, so the reconfiguring has to be done with 
> the old hdc disk already beeing installed as hdf.
> 
> Any comments appreciated!
> 
> 
> /Regards Kalle
> 
> 
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