From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l7GH43sK030105 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:04:03 -0400 Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l7GH3xsw019370 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:04:00 -0400 Received: from gerhayn.mcc.ac.uk ([10.2.18.1]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ILilL-0004HI-CB for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:03:59 +0100 Received: from ratty.phy.umist.ac.uk ([130.88.128.163]:54133) by gerhayn.mcc.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ILilL-0003nG-9d for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:03:59 +0100 From: michael Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:03:57 +0100 Message-Id: <1187283837.16162.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] pvmove problems Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com I'm trying to reduce a logical vol so that I can remove a HD from it. However, I get errors with pvmove but I don't know why. I saw some old postings with a kernel patch but the URL is extinct. I'm running Fedora: Linux xxx.phy.umist.ac.uk 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 #1 SMP Fri Jul 27 18:21:43 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux chris@veri:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/pvdisplay /dev/sdb1 Password: --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sdb1 VG Name VolGroup00 PV Size 698.64 GB / not usable 10.34 MB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 22356 Free PE 19156 Allocated PE 3200 PV UUID xDWUQB-wdEx-AtEs-YFkh-BKBR-7Jgd-9ik3p0 chris@veri:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/pvdisplay /dev/sda2 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda2 VG Name VolGroup00 PV Size 465.66 GB / not usable 3.56 MB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 14901 Free PE 14839 Allocated PE 62 PV UUID GLGcHf-b3Ga-M61f-okkW-HaAk-Al7P-leVK91 chris@veri:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/pvmove /dev/sdb1 Failure parsing mirror status fraction: 1 core Failure parsing mirror status fraction: 1 core ABORTING: Mirror percentage check failed.