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NAME

       pvmove - Move extents from one physical volume to another

SYNOPSIS

       pvmove position_args
           [ option_args ]
           [ position_args ]

DESCRIPTION

       pvmove  moves  the  allocated  physical  extents  (PEs)  on  a  source  PV  to one or more
       destination PVs.  You can optionally specify a source LV in which case only  extents  used
       by  that  LV  will  be  moved  to free (or specified) extents on the destination PV. If no
       destination PV is specified, the normal allocation rules for the VG are used.

       If pvmove is interrupted for any reason (e.g. the machine crashes) then run  pvmove  again
       without  any  PV  arguments  to restart any operations that were in progress from the last
       checkpoint. Alternatively, use the abort option at any time to abort  the  operation.  The
       resulting location of LVs after an abort depends on whether the atomic option was used.

       More  than  one  pvmove can run concurrently if they are moving data from different source
       PVs, but additional pvmoves will ignore any LVs already in the process of  being  changed,
       so some data might not get moved.

USAGE

       Move PV extents.

       pvmove PV
           [ -A|--autobackup y|n ]
           [ -n|--name LV ]
           [    --alloc contiguous|cling|cling_by_tags|normal|anywhere|inherit ]
           [    --atomic ]
           [    --noudevsync ]
           [    --reportformat basic|json ]
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
           [ PV ... ]

       Continue or abort existing pvmove operations.

       pvmove
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]

       Common options for command:
           [ -b|--background ]
           [ -i|--interval Number ]
           [    --abort ]

       Common options for lvm:
           [ -d|--debug ]
           [ -h|--help ]
           [ -q|--quiet ]
           [ -t|--test ]
           [ -v|--verbose ]
           [ -y|--yes ]
           [    --commandprofile String ]
           [    --config String ]
           [    --driverloaded y|n ]
           [    --lockopt String ]
           [    --longhelp ]
           [    --nolocking ]
           [    --profile String ]
           [    --version ]

OPTIONS

       --abort
              Abort any pvmove operations in progress. If a pvmove was started with the --atomic
              option, then all LVs will remain on the source PV.  Otherwise, segments that have
              been moved will remain on the destination PV, while unmoved segments will remain on
              the source PV.

       --alloc contiguous|cling|cling_by_tags|normal|anywhere|inherit
              Determines the allocation policy when a command needs to allocate Physical Extents
              (PEs) from the VG. Each VG and LV has an allocation policy which can be changed
              with vgchange/lvchange, or overriden on the command line.  normal applies common
              sense rules such as not placing parallel stripes on the same PV.  inherit applies
              the VG policy to an LV.  contiguous requires new PEs be placed adjacent to existing
              PEs.  cling places new PEs on the same PV as existing PEs in the same stripe of the
              LV.  If there are sufficient PEs for an allocation, but normal does not use them,
              anywhere will use them even if it reduces performance, e.g. by placing two stripes
              on the same PV.  Optional positional PV args on the command line can also be used
              to limit which PVs the command will use for allocation.  See lvm(8) for more
              information about allocation.

       --atomic
              Makes a pvmove operation atomic, ensuring that all affected LVs are moved to the
              destination PV, or none are if the operation is aborted.

       -A|--autobackup y|n
              Specifies if metadata should be backed up automatically after a change.  Enabling
              this is strongly advised! See vgcfgbackup(8) for more information.

       -b|--background
              If the operation requires polling, this option causes the command to return before
              the operation is complete, and polling is done in the background.

       --commandprofile String
              The command profile to use for command configuration.  See lvm.conf(5) for more
              information about profiles.

       --config String
              Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf settings.  The String arg
              uses the same format as lvm.conf, or may use section/field syntax.  See lvm.conf(5)
              for more information about config.

       -d|--debug ...
              Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail of messages sent
              to the log file and/or syslog (if configured).

       --driverloaded y|n
              If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper.  For testing and
              debugging.

       -h|--help
              Display help text.

       -i|--interval Number
              Report progress at regular intervals.

       --lockopt String
              Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd.  See lvmlockd(8) for more
              information.

       --longhelp
              Display long help text.

       -n|--name String
              Move only the extents belonging to the named LV.

       --nolocking
              Disable locking.

       --noudevsync
              Disables udev synchronisation. The process will not wait for notification from
              udev. It will continue irrespective of any possible udev processing in the
              background. Only use this if udev is not running or has rules that ignore the
              devices LVM creates.

       --profile String
              An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on the command.

       -q|--quiet ...
              Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --verbose.  Repeat once to
              also suppress any prompts with answer 'no'.

       --reportformat basic|json
              Overrides current output format for reports which is defined globally by the
              report/output_format setting in lvm.conf.  basic is the original format with
              columns and rows.  If there is more than one report per command, each report is
              prefixed with the report name for identification. json produces report output in
              JSON format. See lvmreport(7) for more information.

       -t|--test
              Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata.  This is implemented by
              disabling all metadata writing but nevertheless returning success to the calling
              function. This may lead to unusual error messages in multi-stage operations if a
              tool relies on reading back metadata it believes has changed but hasn't.

       -v|--verbose ...
              Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the detail of messages sent
              to stdout and stderr.

       --version
              Display version information.

       -y|--yes
              Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume the answer yes. Use
              with extreme caution.  (For automatic no, see -qq.)

VARIABLES

       PV
              Physical Volume name, a device path under /dev.   For  commands  managing  physical
              extents,  a  PV  positional  arg  generally accepts a suffix indicating a range (or
              multiple ranges) of physical extents (PEs).  When  the  first  PE  is  omitted,  it
              defaults to the start of the device, and when the last PE is omitted it defaults to
              end.  Start and end  range  (inclusive):  PV[:PE-PE]...   Start  and  length  range
              (counting from 0): PV[:PE+PE]...

       String
              See the option description for information about the string content.

       Size[UNIT]
              Size  is  an  input  number  that accepts an optional unit.  Input units are always
              treated as base two values, regardless of capitalization, e.g.  'k'  and  'K'  both
              refer  to  1024.  The default input unit is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT.
              UNIT represents other possible input units: bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE.  b|B is bytes, s|S is
              sectors  of  512 bytes, k|K is KiB, m|M is MiB, g|G is GiB, t|T is TiB, p|P is PiB,
              e|E is EiB.  (This should not be confused with the output  control  --units,  where
              capital letters mean multiple of 1000.)

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See  lvm(8)  for  information  about  environment  variables  used  by  lvm.  For example,
       LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a required VG parameter.

NOTES

       pvmove works as follows:

       1. A temporary 'pvmove' LV is created to store details of all the data movements required.

       2. Every LV in the VG is searched for contiguous data that need moving  according  to  the
       command  line  arguments.  For each piece of data found, a new segment is added to the end
       of the pvmove LV.  This segment takes the form of a temporary mirror to copy the data from
       the  original  location  to a newly allocated location.  The original LV is updated to use
       the new temporary mirror segment in the pvmove LV instead of accessing the data directly.

       3. The VG metadata is updated on disk.

       4. The first segment of the pvmove LV is activated and starts to mirror the first part  of
       the data.  Only one segment is mirrored at once as this is usually more efficient.

       5.  A  daemon  repeatedly checks progress at the specified time interval.  When it detects
       that the first temporary mirror is in sync, it breaks that mirror so  that  only  the  new
       location  for  that  data  gets used and writes a checkpoint into the VG metadata on disk.
       Then it activates the mirror for the next segment of the pvmove LV.

       6. When there are no more segments left to be mirrored, the temporary LV  is  removed  and
       the VG metadata is updated so that the LVs reflect the new data locations.

       Note  that  this  new  process  cannot support the original LVM1 type of on-disk metadata.
       Metadata can be converted using vgconvert(8).

       If the --atomic option is used, a slightly  different  approach  is  used  for  the  move.
       Again,  a  temporary 'pvmove' LV is created to store the details of all the data movements
       required.  This temporary LV contains all the segments of the various LVs that need to  be
       moved.   However, in this case, an identical LV is allocated that contains the same number
       of segments and a mirror is created to copy the contents from the first  temporary  LV  to
       the  second.  After a complete copy is made, the temporary LVs are removed, leaving behind
       the segments on the destination PV.  If an abort is issued during the move, all LVs  being
       moved will remain on the source PV.

EXAMPLES

       Move all physical extents that are used by simple LVs on the specified PV to free physical
       extents elsewhere in the VG.
       pvmove /dev/sdb1

       Use a specific destination PV when moving physical extents.
       pvmove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1

       Move extents belonging to a single LV.
       pvmove -n lvol1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1

       Rather than moving the contents of an entire device, it is possible to  move  a  range  of
       physical extents, for example numbers 1000 to 1999 inclusive on the specified PV.
       pvmove /dev/sdb1:1000-1999

       A  range  of  physical  extents  to  move  can  be specified as start+length. For example,
       starting from PE 1000. (Counting starts from 0, so this refers to the 1001st to the 2000th
       PE inclusive.)
       pvmove /dev/sdb1:1000+1000

       Move  a  range  of  physical  extents  to  a  specific PV (which must have sufficient free
       extents).
       pvmove /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 /dev/sdc1

       Move a range of physical extents to specific new extents on a new PV.
       pvmove /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 /dev/sdc1:0-999

       If the source and destination are on the same disk,  the  anywhere  allocation  policy  is
       needed.
       pvmove --alloc anywhere /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 /dev/sdb1:0-999

       The part of a specific LV present within in a range of physical extents can also be picked
       out and moved.
       pvmove -n lvol1 /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 /dev/sdc1

SEE ALSO

       lvm(8) lvm.conf(5) lvmconfig(8)

       pvchange(8) pvck(8) pvcreate(8)  pvdisplay(8)  pvmove(8)  pvremove(8)  pvresize(8)  pvs(8)
       pvscan(8)

       vgcfgbackup(8)  vgcfgrestore(8)  vgchange(8) vgck(8) vgcreate(8) vgconvert(8) vgdisplay(8)
       vgexport(8) vgextend(8) vgimport(8) vgimportclone(8) vgmerge(8)  vgmknodes(8)  vgreduce(8)
       vgremove(8) vgrename(8) vgs(8) vgscan(8) vgsplit(8)

       lvcreate(8)  lvchange(8)  lvconvert(8)  lvdisplay(8)  lvextend(8)  lvreduce(8) lvremove(8)
       lvrename(8) lvresize(8) lvs(8) lvscan(8)

       lvm-fullreport(8) lvm-lvpoll(8) lvm2-activation-generator(8) blkdeactivate(8) lvmdump(8)

       dmeventd(8) lvmpolld(8) lvmlockd(8) lvmlockctl(8) cmirrord(8) lvmdbusd(8)

       lvmsystemid(7) lvmreport(7) lvmraid(7) lvmthin(7) lvmcache(7)