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Is there a simple way to move/copy a logical volume from one volume group to another? (LVM2)

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Mar 15, 202682950 views
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I'm rearranging a bunch of disks on my server at home and I find myself in the position of wanting to move a bunch of LVM logical volumes to another volume group. Is there a simple way to do this? I saw mention of a command but this seems to be either old or not something that was ever available fo…

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If you can arrange for the logical volume to be on a separate subset of physical volumes from the rest of the source volume group ( may help), you can use to split off the lv into a new vg and to merge the new vg into the target vg. Although LVM has…

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