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|---|---|
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| Software | Windows 10 x64 |
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Hi guys, I've been using Ubuntu server a little while now, but am still fairly inexperienced with it, having mainly survived by reading through guides and following instructions. I need a little help sorting out my LVM disks, but every guide I read gives conflicting instructions, especially when using LVM as a root partition, so I am getting a little confused with it all 
I currently have 3 physical drives set up with LVM to be read as 1 volume group, the root volume, I believe. Two of these are USB drives and one is an internal drive (I'm using a little netbook as a server).
I have 2x 235gb drives and 1x 300gb drive making a total of around 880gb, but only 100 gb is used. I don't actually know which physical drive is set as /dev/sdxx in the system, though the 300gb drive will be easiest to figure out.
I have a couple of additional 500 gb drives and I'd like to alter my arrangement of disks. The main thing I want to do is reduce the LVM so that it is only using 1 internal drive and ideally copy this to one of the new drives. After that, I'd like to create a second LVM out of the remaining disks for backup/storage.
I can likely get the second step done easily enough, but I'm struggling to find a starting point for the first. I'd really appreciate any help that you guys (with a little more experience) might be able to provide.
My disk information is as follows:
I currently have 3 physical drives set up with LVM to be read as 1 volume group, the root volume, I believe. Two of these are USB drives and one is an internal drive (I'm using a little netbook as a server).
I have 2x 235gb drives and 1x 300gb drive making a total of around 880gb, but only 100 gb is used. I don't actually know which physical drive is set as /dev/sdxx in the system, though the 300gb drive will be easiest to figure out.
I have a couple of additional 500 gb drives and I'd like to alter my arrangement of disks. The main thing I want to do is reduce the LVM so that it is only using 1 internal drive and ideally copy this to one of the new drives. After that, I'd like to create a second LVM out of the remaining disks for backup/storage.
I can likely get the second step done easily enough, but I'm struggling to find a starting point for the first. I'd really appreciate any help that you guys (with a little more experience) might be able to provide.
My disk information is as follows:
- sudo lvmdiskscan
/dev/PlexServer-vg/swap_1 [ 1.84 GiB]
/dev/sda1 [ 487.00 MiB]
/dev/PlexServer-vg/root [ 761.51 GiB]
/dev/mapper/cryptswap1 [ 1.84 GiB]
/dev/sda3 [ 121.10 GiB] LVM physical volume
/dev/sda5 [ 111.31 GiB] LVM physical volume
/dev/sdb1 [ 128.00 MiB]
/dev/sdb2 [ 4.55 TiB]
/dev/sdc1 [ 298.06 GiB] LVM physical volume
/dev/sdd1 [ 232.88 GiB] LVM physical volume
1 disk
5 partitions
0 LVM physical volume whole disks
4 LVM physical volumes
mark@PlexServer:~$ sudo lvmdiskscan -l
WARNING: only considering LVM devices
/dev/sda3 [ 121.10 GiB] LVM physical volume
/dev/sda5 [ 111.31 GiB] LVM physical volume
/dev/sdc1 [ 298.06 GiB] LVM physical volume
/dev/sdd1 [ 232.88 GiB] LVM physical volume
0 LVM physical volume whole disks
4 LVM physical volumes
mark@PlexServer:~$ sudo pvscan
PV /dev/sda5 VG PlexServer-vg lvm2 [111.31 GiB / 0 free]
PV /dev/sda3 VG PlexServer-vg lvm2 [121.09 GiB / 0 free]
PV /dev/sdd1 VG PlexServer-vg lvm2 [232.88 GiB / 0 free]
PV /dev/sdc1 VG PlexServer-vg lvm2 [298.06 GiB / 0 free]
Total: 4 [763.34 GiB] / in use: 4 [763.34 GiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
mark@PlexServer:~$ sudo pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda3 PlexServer-vg lvm2 a-- 121.09g 0
/dev/sda5 PlexServer-vg lvm2 a-- 111.31g 0
/dev/sdc1 PlexServer-vg lvm2 a-- 298.06g 0
/dev/sdd1 PlexServer-vg lvm2 a-- 232.88g 0
mark@PlexServer:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 857M 0 857M 0% /dev
tmpfs 177M 13M 165M 8% /run
/dev/mapper/PlexServer--vg-root 750G 43G 677G 6% /
tmpfs 883M 28K 883M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 883M 0 883M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 472M 404M 44M 91% /boot
/dev/sdb2 4.6T 1.1T 3.6T 23% /media/usbhd2
/home/mark/.Private 750G 43G 677G 6% /home/mark
tmpfs 177M 0 177M 0% /run/user/1000