From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18024 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2011 13:24:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 18005 invoked by uid 9478); 25 Oct 2011 13:24:24 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:24:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20111025132424.18003.qmail@sourceware.org> From: jbrassow@sourceware.org To: lvm-devel@redhat.com, lvm2-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: LVM2/man lvconvert.8.in lvcreate.8.in Mailing-List: contact lvm2-cvs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: lvm2-cvs-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-10/txt/msg00108.txt.bz2 CVSROOT: /cvs/lvm2 Module name: LVM2 Changes by: jbrassow@sourceware.org 2011-10-25 13:24:23 Modified files: man : lvconvert.8.in lvcreate.8.in Log message: Update lvconvert man page to describe '--type ' argument Man page changes were not included when the ability to convert from "mirror" -> "raid1" or "linear" -> "raid1" were made. Patches: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/LVM2/man/lvconvert.8.in.diff?cvsroot=lvm2&r1=1.22&r2=1.23 http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/LVM2/man/lvcreate.8.in.diff?cvsroot=lvm2&r1=1.25&r2=1.26 --- LVM2/man/lvconvert.8.in 2011/08/19 17:36:13 1.22 +++ LVM2/man/lvconvert.8.in 2011/10/25 13:24:23 1.23 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ .SH SYNOPSIS .B lvconvert \-m|\-\-mirrors Mirrors [\-\-mirrorlog {disk|core|mirrored}] [\-\-corelog] [\-R|\-\-regionsize MirrorLogRegionSize] +[\-\-type SegmentType] [\-A|\-\-alloc AllocationPolicy] [\-b|\-\-background] [\-f|\-\-force] [\-i|\-\-interval Seconds] [\-h|\-?|\-\-help] @@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ [\-v|\-\-verbose] [\-\-version] LogicalVolume[Path] [PhysicalVolume[Path]...] + .SH DESCRIPTION lvconvert is used to change the segment type (i.e. linear, mirror, etc) or characteristics of a logical volume. For example, it can add or remove the @@ -94,6 +96,11 @@ A mirror is divided into regions of this size (in MB), and the mirror log uses this granularity to track which regions are in sync. .TP +.I \-\-type SegmentType +Used to convert a logical volume to another segment type or to explicitly state +the desired RAID1 segment type ("mirror" or "raid1") when converting a linear +logical volume to a mirror with the '-m' argument. +.TP .I \-b, \-\-background Run the daemon in the background. .TP @@ -179,6 +186,12 @@ .br converts the linear logical volume "vg00/lvol1" to a two-way mirror logical volume. +.br +.SH Examples +"lvconvert --type raid1 -m1 vg00/lvol1" +.br +converts the linear logical volume "vg00/lvol1" to a two-way RAID1 +logical volume. "lvconvert --mirrorlog core vg00/lvol1" .br @@ -195,6 +208,11 @@ converts a mirror logical volume to a linear logical volume. .br +"lvconvert --type raid1 vg00/mirror_lv" +.br +converts a mirror logical volume to a RAID1 logical volume with the same +number of images. +.br .br "lvconvert -s vg00/lvol1 vg00/lvol2" --- LVM2/man/lvcreate.8.in 2011/10/21 09:55:07 1.25 +++ LVM2/man/lvcreate.8.in 2011/10/25 13:24:23 1.26 @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ commandline switch alias that will enable their use (-s is an alias for --type snapshot). However, this argument must be used when no existing commandline switch alias is available for the desired type, as is the case -with "error", "zero", "raid4", "raid5", or "raid6". +with "error", "zero", "raid1", "raid4", "raid5", or "raid6". .TP .BR \-V ", " \-\-virtualsize " " \fIVirtualSize Create a sparse device of the given size (in MB by default) using a snapshot.