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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|json_std ]
           [ 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 ]
           [    --devices PV ]
           [    --devicesfile String ]
           [    --driverloaded y|n ]
           [    --journal String ]
           [    --lockopt String ]
           [    --longhelp ]
           [    --nohints ]
           [    --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 overridden 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(5) settings.   The  String
              arg  uses  the  same  format  as lvm.conf(5), 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).

       --devices PV
              Restricts  the devices that are visible and accessible to the command.  Devices not
              listed will appear to be missing. This option can be repeated, or accepts  a  comma
              separated list of devices. This overrides the devices file.

       --devicesfile String
              A   file   listing   devices   that  LVM  should  use.   The  file  must  exist  in
              /etc/lvm/devices/ and is managed with the lvmdevices(8)  command.   This  overrides
              the lvm.conf(5) devices/devicesfile and devices/use_devicesfile settings.

       --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.

       --journal String
              Record information in the systemd journal.  This  information  is  in  addition  to
              information   enabled   by  the  lvm.conf  log/journal  setting.   command:  record
              information about the command.  output: record the default command output.   debug:
              record full command debugging.

       --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.

       --nohints
              Do not use the hints file to locate devices  for  PVs.  A  command  may  read  more
              devices  to  find  PVs  when  hints  are  not  used. The command will still perform
              standard hint file invalidation where appropriate.

       --nolocking
              Disable locking. Use  with  caution,  concurrent  commands  may  produce  incorrect
              results.

       --noudevsync
              Disables  udev  synchronization.  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|json_std
              Overrides  current  output  format  for  reports  which  is defined globally by the
              report/output_format setting in lvm.conf(5).  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. json_std produces report output in JSON format which is more compliant
              with JSON standard.  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: 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), lvmdevices(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), vgimportdevices(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), blkdeactivate(8), lvmdump(8),

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

       lvmsystemid(7), lvmreport(7), lvmcache(7), lvmraid(7), lvmthin(7), lvmvdo(7),
       lvmautoactivation(7)