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On 4/21/2008, Bryn M. Reeves (bmr@redhat.com) wrote:
> > I had never heard of the %FREE thing though. To fill out a vg I 
> would just check how many extents are available and use that on the 
> command line with -l, remember there are no spaces between -l and the 
> number of extents given.
> 
> The %VG, %LV & %FREE suffices were introduced a while back:
> 
> Version 2.02.11 - 12th October 2006
> ===================================
> [...]
>   Add %VG, %LV and %FREE suffices to lvcreate/lvresize --extents arg.

Cool... so to confirm, the correct syntax would be:

lvextend -l%FREE /dev/vg2/var

(no space between the 'l' and '%FREE')

?

Thanks again guys...

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Best regards,

Charles