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 (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i8PM5Tr05585 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:05:29 -0400 Received: from mail.myself.gen.nz (203-79-83-162.cable.paradise.net.nz [203.79.83.162]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8PM5QYL019489 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:05:27 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.myself.gen.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D97D180098 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:09:04 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mail.myself.gen.nz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (guardian.cyber.god [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with LMTP id 14630-03 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:09:03 +1200 (NZST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (fosi.cyber.god [192.168.1.2]) by mail.myself.gen.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8AF6180095 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:09:03 +1200 (NZST) Message-ID: <4155EBA2.7020609@myself.gen.nz> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:05:22 +1200 From: Steve Wray MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] which files, which physical volumes? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: steve@myself.gen.nz, 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"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Clint Byrum wrote: > > On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 11:31 PM, Steve Wray wrote: > >> Luca Berra wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:29:37PM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: >>> [snip] >> Actually, this just got more interesting because after the last >> pvmove --abort I now get this error out of pvmove -tv; >> >> Insufficient contiguous allocatable extents (780) for logical volume >> pvmove0: 1292 required >> Allocation for temporary pvmove LV failed >> >> which is new. >> >> I am guessing here, but if I moved some of the larger files out of >> that logical volume, might pvmove be able to work around this? >> [snip] > Yours seems to be telling you that you can't move 1292 physical extents > into 780. You'll have to add physical volumes (NFS mounted loopback? > External USB harddrive?), or remove other logical volumes. Well then its bogus; the physical volume I am trying to pvmove has a capacity of around 9G whereas the volume group of which it is a part has a nice 42G free. So how does that work out to not enough extents?