On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Theo Band <theo.band at greenpeak.com> wrote: > On 09/16/2011 05:03 AM, Muhammad Panji wrote: > > Dear All, > > I plan to replace an error disk that is part of an LV. from LVM how-to > > it could be done with using pvmove to move all PE from old disk to new > > disk.But the howto also said that pvmove is slow. Anyone has > > experience using pvmove on 2TB disk? > > > > Is it possible to make all PE on the old disk empty so I don't have to > > do pvmove (assuming that I can make a free space >= 2TB). Thank you in > > advance > > Regards > Yes it is slow, but it works. You can condider to remove some (unused) > LVM that have extends on the physical disk. That speeds it up, as the > extends are marked free again. How many disks do you now have in your > volume group? If only one, then simply try to copy the entire disk to > another one (dd/ddrescue/clonezilla). If the disk has bad sectors, then > the pvmove will most likely fail anyhow. > Hi Theo, thank you for the reply. I have four disk in one LV. so yesterday I already done pvmove the 2TB disk and it took time about 20 hours. I think the disk is just start to fail and most part of the disk is still good, that's why the pvmove process didn't take time that long. Regards, -- ----- Muhammad Panji http://www.panji.web.id http://www.kurungsiku.com http://sumodirjo.wordpress.com http://www.kurungsiku.web.id http://www.linuxbox.web.id -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110919/1be4cd61/attachment-0005.html>