From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:17:13 -0400 From: Jeffrey B Layton Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problem createing Logical Volumes Message-id: <3B0D4219.DFA77222@lmco.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <3B0D322A.7037368A@lmco.com> 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: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com I found the trouble (user error of course). I was trying to stripe across 5 new disks and a partition of a sixth one (only 2.5G of 17G). Oops, forgot to think before I typed. Jeff Jeffrey B Layton wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a 2.2.19 with Beta6 kernel. I've got 6 SCSI disks > that I'm trying to setup as logical group and then divide > into logical volumes. > I've created all the pv's correctly and the vg (vg01). It > says that I have the following: > > Total PE: 22396 > Free PE: 22396/87.48GB > > So I tried to create a 70G logical volume, > > lvcreate -i6 -I4 -L70G -nlvol1 -v /dev/vg01 > > (this corresponds to 17922 PE's). It fails with the following: > > not enough allocatble/free physical volume space in "vg01" > please check if physical volumes are allocatable > > I checked all the pv's and they are allocatable. What should > I look at next? I'm kind of stuck. > > TIA, > > Jeff Layton > > Lockheed-Martin > > _______________________________________________ > 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