From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E4006F9.9080100@ednet.ns.ca> From: Patrick Boutilier MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] New lv cannot span pv's References: <200302041927.44619.stefan.nilsen@wale.dyndns.dk> In-Reply-To: <200302041927.44619.stefan.nilsen@wale.dyndns.dk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Tue Feb 4 12:33:02 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com What does vgdisplay show? Stefan Nilsen wrote: > Hi. > > I'm using LVM on SuSE 8.1 > > As can be seen below, I cannot create a logical volume spanning physical > volumes even if they are in the same volume group. > > I'm pretty sure I could do this in older versions of the LVM. > > wale:~ # pvscan > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hda5" of VG "vgdata" [11.60 GB / 3.16 GB > free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hda6" of VG "vgdata" [21.71 GB / 3.24 GB > free] > pvscan -- total: 2 [33.31 GB] / in use: 2 [33.31 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] > > wale:~ # lvcreate -ntest -L5G vgdata > lvcreate -- not enough allocatable/free physical volume space in > "vgdata" > lvcreate -- please check, if physical volumes are allocatable > > Do I really have to use MD to overcome this problem? > Shouldn't the LVM software take care of this? > > /Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/