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Storage Analysis: pvmove Source Device

MediumStorage & LVM10-15 min
The brief

Data is being migrated off a failing disk with a live pvmove. To confirm the operation targets the right disk, identify the source physical volume. A capture of the operator's session — pvs, the pvmove command they ran, and its progress — is at /root/storage/pvmove.txt; the devices differ per session.

pvmove SOURCE [DESTINATION] moves extents off the first device named (the progress lines report the source too). Record the source PV's device path to /root/answers/pvmove_src.txt.

What you'll do
  • Record the pvmove source PV device to /root/answers/pvmove_src.txt

Hands-on lab: you work on a real Linux box in your browser, graded on the machine's actual state.