[linux-lvm] reducing lv

[Arshavir Grigorian]

Piw wrote:

>NiHao Arshavir,
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>Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 12:23:10 AM, you wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I have a very large LV across 4 pv-s (2 disks - /dev/hdb, /dev/hdd + 2
>>partitions on different sisks - /dev/hda2, /dev/hdc2).
>>Is there any way to determine how the data on the lv is stored and 
>>whether it would be possible to consolidate the data on 1 disk + 2 
>>partitions (/dev/hdb, /dev/hda2, /dev/hdc2) and replace the other disk
>>(/dev/hdd).
>>I am running Reiserfs.
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>>Thanks for any pointer on how to do this.
>>Arshavir
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>Hi
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>It depends...
>0. first check, if any of you PV has free extents.
># pvdisplay
>   - check how many 'Allocated PE' has /dev/hdd
>   - check is sum of 'Free PE' from other 3 PV is greater then that.
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>If  yes,  it  will  be easy (other PV can store all the PE from hdd).
>look at scenario 1.
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>If no, it will still be easy, but filesystem shrnking will be needed.
>look at scenario 2.
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>scenario 1.
>So other PVs can take all data... ok... we will use pvmove to do that.
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>1. Check, if there is any PV that can take all the PE in one move.
>ie. you have 10 allocated PE in hdd, and other PV has 13, 8, 5 PEs free.
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>if yes, simply:
>pvmove /dev/hdd /dev/hdx (hdx has more free PEs then hdd allocated PEs)
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>if no:
>If you  have  to  move  to 2 or 3 PVs (ie. hdd use 10 PE, other PVs has
>7,  5, 3 free) you  have  to do some trick - (correct me if i'm wrong,
>but LVM still cannot move PE to multiple PV in one run?).
>You have to manually move fragments of source PV to other PVs.
>#pvmove /dev/hdd:1-7 /dev/1st.target
>#pvmove /dev/hdd:8-10 /dev/2nd.target
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>And thats all.
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>scenario 2.
>First  you  have  to  shirink  filesystem, to regain free PEs in Volume
>Group.
>1. Check PE size in your VG (pvdisplay - 'PE Size (KByte)')
>2. Check number of 'Allocated PE' in hdd
>3. check number of 'Free PE' in others PV
>4. allocated - free = gives you how much PE U have to relese
>5. multiple number of PE to release by size of 1 PE
>6. now you know how many KB you have to regain.
>7. multiple it by 1.1 - to gain safty margin #1
>8. now make sure that (free space in filesystem > KB to release)
>9. umount lv
>9. shrink filesystem
># resize_reiserfs -f -s -(KB to release)K /dev/vg/lv
>10. multiple (KB to release) by 0.95 to gain safety margin #2
>11. shrink lv
># lvreduce -L -(KB to release)K /dev/vg/lv
>12. expand filesystem to regain space lost for safe margin #2
># resize_reiserfs /dev/vg/lv
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>13. recalculate if now U have enought free PE to reallocate all PE form
>hdd. If yes, go to scenario 1, if no, back to beginning of scenario 2.
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>When you finish, U can do:
>lvextend  -L  +(numer of free PEs) /dev/vg/lv
>to regain PE used to safty margin #1.
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>good luck :)
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>PS.  If  U  can get lots of free space in filesystem, use bigger safty
>margins (ie. 1.2 first, 0.9 second) - space isnt lost, and give U more flexibility.
>--
>Piw
>Jabb with me at piw at e-liberty.pl M0r3 1nf0 4t http://www.jabberpl.org/
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Thank you so very much for such detailed instructions.
I will give it try and will report back with any success/failure.

Arshavir