Hello,

I am looking to move a /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv-home to /dev/mapper/volgroup-lv-root. Can i delete the volumeGroup-lv-home and add it to the VolGroup-lv-root? I am running centos 6 64 bit. Not sure if i can do this with the fdisk command. Here is my output df-h.

[root@localhost]# df -h
Filesystem size used avail use% mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
50g 1.1g 46g 3% /
tmpfs 5.9g 0 5.9g 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 485m 58m 403m 13% /boot
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv-home
83g 184m 79g 1% /home

any help would be appreciated.

thanks

I think you'd mv the content, then dismantle the /home LV/VG, then optionally add the disks (pv) to the root LV/VG.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...l_6_lvm_admin/

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hey thanks,

Was out sick yesterday from work and really busy today on other projects but will look into both these links. If i have any issues or questions i will definitely post back here for info.

Ok so i am completely lost now. I tried running the vgmerge command

vgmerge VolGroup-lv_root VolGroup-lv_home but was giving me this error:
Volume Group "VolGroup-lv-home" not found.



I removed the /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home by running this command.

umount /dev/VolGroup/lv_home
lvremove /dev/VolGroup/lv_home

Then did a pvscan and it shows this.

PV /dev/sda2 VG VolGroup lvm2 148.01 gb 84.26 free (So where did the 148-84=64 go). I need to get that added back with VolGroup-lv_root now.

When i run mount i see this.

/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root on / type ext4 (rw) - i was seeing the VolGroup-lv_home as well until i unmounted it and removed it. Also when i ran the command lvdisplay i would see /dev/VolGroup/lv_root, /dev/VolGroup/lv_home, /dev/VolGroup/lv_swap (now i just see the lv_root and lv_swap)

Can someone please help me with this. Still having issues.

since i deleted VolGroup-lv-home, it corrupted the system so it wouldnt boot. Now reinstalled linux and see the root and home volgroups. Now i just need to know how to merge them in 1 volgroup. Here is what i show on reinstall.

root@localhost#lvs

lv_home VolGroup -wi-ao 84.26 g
lv_root VolGroup -wi-ao 50.00 g
lv_swap VolGroup -wi-ao 13.75 g

So how can i take the home content and move it to lv_root. Then merge the lv_home to lv_group? thanks

when i try vgmerge i get this error and not sure why.

root@localhost#df -h

/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root

/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home

so when i run this: vgmerge VolGroup-lv_home VolGroup-lv_root

Volume group "VolGruop-lv_home" not found

So, is that typo something you did here, or did you type it in wrong on your system?
Try copy and pasting what you see, do not re-write by hand.

not sure why i would really have to do that. Why doesn't the merge command work?

Because it didn't work. I know it's more work for you but I think chrism01 is going down the right track.

This way you know it will work. If you don't have enough disk space try moving the data to an external drive and then redoing the logical volumes (this may be why the merge is failing.)

everything i posted was all setup default when i installed centos 6.0 on it. I wonder if i did something wrong when installing it to create all these VolGroup and not just keep 1.

i tried running the cp -pr /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root but it doesn't really do nothing. See i cant view the contents in VolGroup-lv_root or VolGroup-lv_home as it says there not valid directory. Really don't know how to get this finished. I have setup lots of linux machines but not this dept. Need to figure out the volgroups and not sure what im doing wrong. I followed the links above.