[linux-lvm] Trouble with pvmove

[Nils Juergens]

On Thu, 01.05.03, Andreé Åström <andree.astrom at home.se> wrote:

> In one of my volume groups a disk have gone bad.
> I extended the volumegroup with another disk to be able to pvmove it.

Is the disk already producing read errors or are you using a SMART monitor
that tells you it is bad?

> 
> pvmove -i -v /dev/hdh
> 
> It went fine until,
> pvmove -- /dev/hdh [PE 259 [archive [LE 259]] -> /dev/hdj [PE 259]
> [260/1831]
> 
> The machine got total dead. The whole volumegroup consists of 1.1TB so i
> couldn't backup it all up beforehand.

Which version of LVM are you using? IIRC there has been trouble with pvmove
and lockups before, so try to upgrade to newest version.

cya,

Nils

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