From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j8JI3EV19939 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:03:14 -0400 Received: from www.geoinf.fu-berlin.de (www.geoinf.fu-berlin.de [160.45.89.23]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8JI38FL009665 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:03:09 -0400 Received: from [160.45.89.15] (callisto.geoinf.fu-berlin.de [160.45.89.15]) by www.geoinf.fu-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A057A1E03 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:03:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <432EFD51.9040300@alice-it.net> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:02:57 +0200 From: Sebastian MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] Removing PE from LV fails 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"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Hello list, sorry for my mail bombing this day, I was really upset about my troubles. I did actually kill the process by kill -9, and as far as I can see, there have been no problems. Now I'd like to ask a question about my main problem: I can't remove one PE from the VG. I'm running LVM 1.0.8-2 on RHEL 3. This is what the shell gives me: # pvmove /dev/sde pvmove -- moving physical extents in active volume group "express_vg" pvmove -- WARNING: if you lose power during the move you may need to restore your LVM metadata from backup! pvmove -- do you want to continue? [y/n] y Segmentation fault I can't see the Distribution as well: # pvdisplay -v /dev/sde --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sde VG Name express_vg PV Size 1.37 TB [2938208256 secs] / NOT usable 64.25 MB [LVM: 215 KB] PV# 6 PV Status available Allocatable NO Cur LV 1 PE Size (KByte) 65536 Total PE 22415 Free PE 19530 Allocated PE 2885 PV UUID JtrSU1-82Om-HjJC-5rvC-aVwB-Cc5y-WsRbHQ --- Distribution of physical volume --- LV Name LE of LV PE for LV Segmentation fault Even with the -d option, there is not more information regarding the Distribution of physical volume. I it helps I can put the -d and -vv outputs on a webserver. What I did not try yet is booting off a gentoo live-CD and using LVM2 to remove the PE. Is that a good decision? Thank you for any help. Best regards, Sebastian