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See Figure 17-3 for an overview. It shows a LV with three PVs. These PVs are
configured with three stripes.
Figure 17-3 LVM - striping with three stripes
17.6 Using pvmove to migrate PEs to other PVs
If you have to release some DASDs from your VG, you can move the PEs to
other PVs. Consider the following scenarios:
A file system is running out of space because you are using only 3390-3
volumes in your VG.
One possible solution is to add 3390-9s to your VG and increase the size. But
why not use all 3390-9s and release the 3390-3s for other tasks, without
unmounting the file system?
A similar scenario occurs ...