From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Can't mke2fs lv Message-Id: <20020211190928.A31248@sistina.com> References: <20020211173404.GB23@merlins.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020211173404.GB23@merlins.org>; from marc_lvm@merlins.org on Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:34:04AM -0800 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: Mon Feb 11 12:11:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:34:04AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > I've never had this problem before, it's on a 2.4.14 kernel with lvm > 1.0.1rc4: > > gargamel:~# lvscan > lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/BootMylexLVM/usr" [1.50 GB] > lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/BootMylexLVM/var" [2.00 GB] > lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/BootMylexLVM/home" [115.00 GB] > lvscan -- 3 logical volumes with 118.50 GB total in 1 volume group > 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872 > > File size limit exceeded > > > Did I do something stupid, or do I need to upgrade? > (I did do a quick search on this kind of failure, but didn't find anything) No, there's an OS bug related to the 2 GB file size limit which causes both your problems. You must be directly logged in as 'root', *no* 'su root' in order to run the commands fine. > > > Details on the VG: > gargamel:~# vgdisplay -v > --- Volume group --- > VG Name BootMylexLVM > PV Status available / allocatable > Total PE / Free PE 8700 / 1116 > > > Thanks, > Marc > -- > Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... > .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking > > Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f@merlins.org for PGP key > > _______________________________________________ > 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-