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- From: joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Moving volume groups between disks
- Message-ID: <5447@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 06:03:45 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.234806.3359@otago.ac.nz>
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- In article <1992Sep4.234806.3359@otago.ac.nz>, infoian@otago.ac.nz (Ian G. Connelly) writes:
- |> What is the best way to move a volume group from two small disks on our server
- |> to one BIG disk?
- |>
- |> We currently have two 320 disks for AIX/CATIA/Misc Scripts and programs that
- |> go to make up the rootvg. We also have two 857 disks that contain all the user
- |> data and configuration of CATIA. And I would like to move all the data from
- |> the two 857 disks to a 2Gig, preserving the logical volumes/filesystems in the
- |> same format/size (this must be done as painlessly as possible, and the server
- |> is vital to our operations so it must be done reliably).
- |>
-
- Add the 2Gb disk to the same volume group as the 857's. Then use the migratepv
- command to move the partitions to your big disk. Logical volumes and filesystems
- will be preserved (unless you have some logical volumes on that disk already
- whose names overlap those on the 857's. Don't do that.)
-
- I've done this and don't remember any problems, except when I hit a ctrl-C while
- in the wrong window and killed the job part way through. That was difficult
- to clean up...
-
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- Jo Ann Malina, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu -or- 415/926-2846
- Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
- Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.
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