From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] not enough free/allocatable physical extents to extend logical vo lume Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: AJ Lewis Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <49658C34-BEAC-11D7-A0A0-000393DC1896@sistina.com> 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: Fri Jul 25 09:29:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com I'm guessing you're trying to extend by too large a size. Use pvdisplay on /dev/sde1 and note the number of physical extents free. Then try passing that to e2fsadm with the '-l' flag instead of passing 33.91G with the '-L' flag. This is just a guess though. It's pretty hard to tell without all the commands you ran and the output they gave you. On Thursday, Jul 24, 2003, at 23:14 US/Central, Taylor_Carpenter@Dell.com wrote: > I am trying to add a 4th disk to an existing lv. I am following the > directions in > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/x802.html > > but It is complaing about free physical extents when trying to extend > during > the e2fsadm portion. > > > root]# pvscan > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdb1" of VG "Scratch" [33.91 GB / 240 MB > free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdc1" of VG "Scratch" [33.91 GB / 240 MB > free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdd1" of VG "Scratch" [33.91 GB / 240 MB > free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sde1" of VG "Scratch" [33.91 GB / 33.91 GB > free] > pvscan -- total: 4 [135.65 GB] / in use: 4 [135.65 GB] / in no VG: 0 > [0] > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > -- AJ Lewis Sistina Software Inc. http://www.sistina.com 720 Washington Ave, Suite 200 Voice: 612-638-0500 Minneapolis, MN 55414 E-Mail: lewis_NOSPAM_(AT)sistina(DOT)com Current GPG fingerprint = D638 9C01 D08F 29A4 5D50 D064 F6A6 0ED6 E386 E6EB Grab the key at: http://people.sistina.com/~lewis/gpg.html or one of the many keyservers out there... A program is a device used to convert data into error messages.