From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Pvmove fails... No free PE's (and lvextend does not work...) Message-Id: <20020117123253.A25970@sistina.com> References: <431US6YU5C0B6KIMJJQKOK64HBQL.3c45f087@kadzuki> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <431US6YU5C0B6KIMJJQKOK64HBQL.3c45f087@kadzuki>; from andewid@tnonline.net on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:28:39PM +0100 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu Jan 17 05:37:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Hmmm, we didn't talk about versions. Which Linux/LVM version are you using? Another point (assuming that you might siffer from an old OBO error): does the extent still fail with less than 1221 extents? Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:28:39PM +0100, Anders Widman wrote: > Well... here is what the problem is right now.: > > First I scan all physical disks to determine where I have free space to grow.. > > > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdo1" of VG "Server" [55.84 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdp1" of VG "Server" [28.56 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdm1" of VG "Server" [76.28 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdn1" of VG "Server" [76.28 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdk1" of VG "Server" [38.12 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdl1" of VG "Server" [55.84 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdg1" of VG "Server" [55.88 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdh1" of VG "Server" [55.88 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hde1" of VG "Server" [114.44 GB / 38.16 GB free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdf1" of VG "Server" [57.22 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdc1" of VG "Server" [71.53 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdd1" of VG "Server" [71.53 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb1" of VG "Server" [4.28 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb3" of VG "Server" [52.88 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- total: 14 [815.29 GB] / in use: 14 [815.29 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] > > --- Volume group --- > VG Name Server > VG Access read/write > VG Status available/resizable > VG # 0 > MAX LV 256 > Cur LV 1 > Open LV 1 > MAX LV Size 1.00 TB > Max PV 256 > Cur PV 14 > Act PV 14 > VG Size 814.56 GB > PE Size 32.00 MB > Total PE 26066 > Alloc PE / Size 24845 / 776.41 GB > Free PE / Size 1221 / 38.16 GB > VG UUID ElJLCd-ln4W-k3YA-yg8W-HmVU-gs0O-mcR0pA > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/hde1 > VG Name Server > PV Size 114.50 GB / NOT usable 62.91 MB [LVM: 142.00 KB] > PV# 13 > PV Status available > Allocatable yes > Cur LV 1 > PE Size (KByte) 32768 > Total PE 3662 > Free PE 1221 > Allocated PE 2441 > PV UUID 7ScWsg-0vX4-ccX3-W1sO-mFnz-0Sl0-gDWKmM > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Now I use "lvextend -l +1221 /dev/Server/FTPRoot /dev/hde1" to grow my LV "FTPRoot". It worked fine on my new disk (to wich I also moved the old PE's from the bad disk), but not on this one. What > can be the problem. Where should I even begin to look? > > lvextend -- extending logical volume "/dev/Server/FTPRoot" to 814.56 GB > lvextend -- not enough free/allocatable physical extents to extend logical volume /dev/Server/FTPRoot > > Thanks for any help! > > //Anders > > > 2002-01-16 19:28:03, Anders Widman wrote: > > >No, my LV is not striped, so this should have worked. Well.. I have bought another disk and will move all pe's to that one instead. Hopefully this will work better. > > > >//Anders > > > >2002-01-16 16:08:44, "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" wrote: > > > >> > >>Anders, > >> > >>is your LV striped? In this case, pvmove complains because it can't > >>move 2 stripes onto one PV. > >> > >>If so, you need another disk to be pvcreated/vgextend to your VG in order > >>to pvmove data over. > >> > >>On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:52:18AM +0100, Anders Widman wrote: > >>> I have a bad disk (hdl1) that needs to be replaced. It is 40GB, or 1220 PE's. I have another disk which is about 120GB, but has 1221 free PE's. Both disks are in the same VG, Server and the same LV, > >>> FTPRoot. When I try "pvmove -v /dev/hdl1" it failes (doesn't even start, really) and tells me I haven't any free PE's. > >>> > >>> What can I have missed... > >>> > >>> 1) I shrick the filesystem first with about 60GB > >>> 2) I use lvreduce to shrick the LV with about 59GB > >>> 3) I tried "pvmove -v /dev/hdl" to move all PE's on this 40GB disk to the free ones on the other disks. This should have worked, shoudln't it? > >>> > >>> have I missed something critical? > >>> > >>> //Anders > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> linux-lvm mailing list > >>> linux-lvm@sistina.com > >>> http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > >>> read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > >> > >>-- > >> > >>Regards, > >>Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > >> > >>*** Software bugs are stupid. > >> Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** > >> > >>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > >> > >>Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. > >>Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 > >> 56242 Marienrachdorf > >> Germany > >>Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 > >> FAX 924446 > >>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>linux-lvm mailing list > >>linux-lvm@sistina.com > >>http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > >>read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >linux-lvm mailing list > >linux-lvm@sistina.com > >http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > >read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-