[linux-lvm] vgmerge with different physical extent sizes

Stuart D. Gathman stuart at bmsi.com
Fri Dec 24 18:53:54 UTC 2010


On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, Ross Boylan wrote:

> What happens if you vgmerge 2 VG's and they have different physical
> extent sizes?

The man page says it should fail.  It's possible that if everything
lines up, it automatically changes the extent size of either the
source or destination VG.

It is possible to change the PE size with vgchange (some lvresizing/pvmoving
may be required and must be done manually).

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