examples from man pvmove Move a range of physical extents to specific new extents on a new PV. pvmove /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 /dev/sdc1:0-999 If the source and destination are on the same disk, the anywhere allocation policy is needed. pvmove --alloc anywhere /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 /dev/sdb1:0-999