[Swlug] lvm - moving data

Matt Willsher matt at monki.org.uk
Wed Jun 3 05:58:27 UTC 2015


On 2 June 2015 at 18:27, bascule <asura at theexcession.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 Jun 2015 12:29:41 Matt Willsher wrote:
> > Yes, this is quite straight forward - see the pvmove man page. pvmove
> will
> > move the physical extents from one PV to another and continue after
> reboot
> > etc.
> > Matt
> ah, thanks for this, i am only just delving into lvm for the first time
> converting a system to both lvm and btrfs, i wanted to actually take
> advantage
> of it!
>
>
>From my understanding of btrfs, if has it's own volume manager so doesn't
need (and shouldn't use) LVM. Its functionality may not be as mature as
LVM, but it's really one or the other. Personally for data I care about I
use LVM and XFS or ext4/
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