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Quoted 1 line · Olmo Gonz�lez Alcojor

95388 PE of 4mb each is ~370 Gbyte, right? I may be missing something... I've tried to lvextend and get the same error, even when trying to extend just 1Gbyte.

You had 4 disks originally, and you striped across all of them, presumably with -i4. Now you added 2 disks, and you're trying to stripe 4 ways across them (because lvm2 defaults to the stripe size of the previous segment). This will fail because you don't have 4 disks to stripe across. To do this, you will need to specify '-i2' to your lvextend command. If the free space is split evenly across the 2 new disks, you should be able to fill the entire vg with 'lvextend -l95388 -i2 /dev/nasvg/naslv'

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De: AJ Lewis [mailto:[email protected]]
Enviado el: martes, 04 de enero de 2005 20:40
Para: LVM general discussion and development
Asunto: Re: [linux-lvm] Extending a stripped Logical Volume

Quoted 17 lines · Olmo Gonz�lez

I am new to this list, seeking for some help.

I have setup LVM2 under debian sarge (2.6.8-k7 kernel).

I originally created a volumen group (nasvg) on 4 x ST3200822A ATA DISK drives. I created a stripped logical volume spanning these 4 disks and using up al PE's available. I then attached two aditional ST3200822A ATA DISK drives and I would now want to resive my logical volumen to use al the PE's provided by the two new disks. The problem is I can't extend the logical volume, getting the following error:

gollum:~# lvextend -L+1G /dev/nasvg/naslv
  Using stripesize of last segment 64KB
  Extending logical volume naslv to 746.23 GB
  Insufficient allocatable extents suitable for parallel use for
logical volume naslv: 191036 required
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I have been googl'ing and it seems that this has to do with restrictions on resizing sttriped LV's. However, the information I have found says the restrictions no longer apply to LVM2.

You should be able to 'lvextend -L+1G /dev/nasvg/naslv -i1' if you have and additional 1G of free space in the VG. However, based on the vgdisplay output below, it looks like you only have 3.72G free (or 95388 extents), so you'd want do do: 'lvextend -l+95388 /dev/nasvg/naslv -i2' if you want to stripe it across the 2 new disks, or 'lvextend -l+95388 /dev/nasvg/naslv -i1' if you want it to be a linear segment.

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gollum:~# vgdisplay
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               nasvg
  System ID
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        6
  Metadata Sequence No  25
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                1
  Open LV               1
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                6
  Act PV                6
  VG Size               1.09 TB
  PE Size               4.00 MB
  Total PE              286168
  Alloc PE / Size       190780 / 745.23 GB
  Free  PE / Size       95388 / 372.61 GB
  VG UUID               LWqtTF-F8vA-yjXt-AYwK-yFQr-skDa-s9UVRC

--- Logical volume ---

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  LV Name                /dev/nasvg/naslv
  VG Name                nasvg
  LV UUID                GMm5PD-6Rdk-h8lG-35Fw-rZp3-L42s-N6k9QC
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                745.23 GB
  Current LE             190780
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     0
  Block device           254:0

Regards,

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