Description of problem: Hi - the system-config-lvm tool is great and has made it quite easy for me to manage my hard drives... That being said, I just bought a new 500 gb drive that I would like to use as a replacement for my home volume. I decided to migrate extents from the old hard drive to this new one and it's sitting there with an animation but no indication of how long the total process will take or what % done is it so I'm sitting here biting my nails a bit, somewhat worried. Here is some context - my machine has two drives: - 320GB, used to be the only drive in the machine, 1 partition covering the whole drive, 1 volume group: -- swap volume -- root volume (mounted to /) -- home volume (mounted to /home) - 500GB, just purchased, 1 partition covering the whole drive -- no volumes, added to the volum group the 320GB drive is in. What I would like: - 320GB, 1 partition covering the whole drive: -- swap volume -- root volume - 500GB, 1 partition covering the whole drive: -- home volume The steps I took: - initialized the 500GB drive - added 500GB drive to the 320GB drive's logical volume group - went to my hoe volume (current on the 320gb drive) and clicked 'Migrate Selected Extent(s) from Volume', and indicated in the dialog that I wanted the 'extents' migrated to my 500GB drive Now it's sitting there with a little "Migrating Extents" dialog with a little progress thingy bouncing back and forth, but there is no message indicating how long this operation might take total, and how far along it is in the process. After half an hour I gave up.... stracing pvmove indicated that it was looking for /proc/lvm which did not exist on my system so I figured that it just failed. ====== So in bullet-point fashion the bugs I see are: * The "Migrating Extents" dialog has a little progress thingy bouncing back and forth, but there is no message indicating how long this operation might take in total (a guesstimate based on the size of the volume involved would be fine!) * The "Migrating Extents" dialog has no indicated of how far along it is in the process. (a % done in terms of how much data has been moved would be great) * There is no cancel button on the "Migrating Extents" dialog * If the operation fails, eg if /proc/lvm isn't found, the dialog should indicate there is an error rather than continuing to give the impression that something is happening.
Addressing minor points: /proc/lvm is irrelevant to the operation running 'pvmove -i30' on the command line would show you the progress of the ongoing operation every 30 seconds - just kill it (e.g. press control-c) when you want to stop seeing the progress
ooh okay, so if I try again in system-config-lvm and run pvmove -i30 in a terminal i'll be able to see what's going on?
Yes, and if it's not actually running for any reason, that command will just exit immediately.
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