From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx13.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.18]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r9895k4n028587 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 05:05:46 -0400 Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r9895i9C027830 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 05:05:44 -0400 Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.80.1) for linux-lvm@redhat.com with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1VTTEc-0026S7-Tz>; Tue, 08 Oct 2013 11:05:42 +0200 Received: from triton.geoinf.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.86.10]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.80.1) for linux-lvm@redhat.com with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1VTTEc-0000qC-RJ>; Tue, 08 Oct 2013 11:05:42 +0200 Message-ID: <5253CB06.2000901@fu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 11:06:14 +0200 From: Sebastian Walter MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms010206000108070803020600" Subject: [linux-lvm] Find Correct LE Size of ext4 Partition (16TB) 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: To: LVM general discussion and development This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms010206000108070803020600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear List, For extending an ext4 partition to some additional TBs, I extended the underlying logical volume (LV) to fill the entire physical volume of the disk. This was about 19.4 TB. While trying to extend the ext4 partition to fill the hole LV, I realized that the ext4 size limit is still at 16TB. So I set the partition to 16TB. Now I'm wasting space on the LV which I would like to again be reduced to the minimum size of the partition (16TB). Has anyone an idea to exactly calculate the amount of logical extends (LE) needed for holding the 16TB partition? I'm sure there are some bytes needed for overhead, journaling, etc. Maybe we can read it from one of these outputs: This is the partition: tune2fs -l /dev/storage/storage tune2fs 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013) Filesystem volume name: storage Last mounted on: /mnt/storage/mnt/storage Filesystem UUID: 9c05fe79-6a1b-484e-980d-788a6cf5b99c Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent sparse_super large_file uninit_bg Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 2147483648 Block count: 4294967295 Reserved block count: 42909770 Free blocks: 229845414 Free inodes: 1929998857 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 16384 Inode blocks per group: 512 Filesystem created: Tue Sep 18 14:50:21 2007 Last mount time: Tue Oct 8 04:00:16 2013 Last write time: Tue Oct 8 04:00:16 2013 Mount count: 24 Maximum mount count: 36 Last checked: Sat Oct 6 14:50:58 2012 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Thu Apr 4 14:50:58 2013 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: tea Directory Hash Seed: 675a96e5-faf3-4576-af10-713007ac8387 Journal backup: inode blocks This is the Logical Volume (vgdisplay -v): --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/storage/storage VG Name storage LV UUID KQtBJN-RXzo-UUhT-MeiR-Ack8-QB2x-g9aPOT LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 19.18 TB Current LE 5027838 Segments 4 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:24 And this is the Volume Group (vgdisplay): --- Volume group --- VG Name storage System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 2 Metadata Sequence No 174 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 3 Open LV 3 Max PV 0 Cur PV 2 Act PV 2 VG Size 19.77 TB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 5181438 Alloc PE / Size 5181438 / 19.77 TB Free PE / Size 0 / 0 VG UUID ZalMV7-fZqp-mBA3-aYzi-iADF-VDWV-YIifQr What I would like to know is the correct *extents* parameter for lvreduce. Any help is greatly appreciated! 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