I'm aware I can't let my thin volume get full. I'm actually about to delete a lot of things. I don't understand why it gave the sdh3 then sdh3, sdg3, sdf3 no space left on device errors. sdf3 has 366G left in its thin pool, and I asked to create a virtual 200G within it. I don't understand why it failed to write VG, or an MDA of VG. I'm most concerned if anything's corrupted now, or if I can ignore this other than that I couldn't create a volume. disk1thin is on sdh3 disk2thin is on sdg3 disk3thin is on sdf3 disk4thin is on sde3 # lvs ... disk1thin lvm twi-aot--- <4.53t 84.13 76.33 disk2thin lvm twi-aot--- <4.53t 85.98 78.09 disk3thin lvm twi-aot--- <4.53t 92.10 83.47 disk4thin lvm twi-aot--- 4.53t 80.99 36.91 ... # lvcreate -V200G lvm/disk3thin -n test3 WARNING: Sum of all thin volume sizes (21.22 TiB) exceeds the size of thin pools and the size of whole volume group (<18.17 TiB). WARNING: You have not turned on protection against thin pools running out of space. WARNING: Set activation/thin_pool_autoextend_threshold below 100 to trigger automatic extension of thin pools before they get full. /dev/sdh3: write failed after 24064 of 24576 at 4993488961536: No space left on device Failed to write VG lvm. Failed to write VG lvm. Manual intervention may be required to remove abandoned LV(s) before retrying. # lvremove lvm/test3 /dev/sdh3: write failed after 24064 of 24576 at 4993488961536: No space left on device WARNING: Failed to write an MDA of VG lvm. /dev/sdg3: write failed after 24064 of 24576 at 4993488961536: No space left on device WARNING: Failed to write an MDA of VG lvm. /dev/sdf3: write failed after 24064 of 24576@4993488961536: No space left on device WARNING: Failed to write an MDA of VG lvm. Logical volume "test3" successfully removed # lvs --- shows test3 is gone # pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sde3 lvm lvm2 a-- 4.54t <10.70g /dev/sdf3 lvm lvm2 a-- 4.54t 0 /dev/sdg3 lvm lvm2 a-- 4.54t 0 /dev/sdh3 lvm lvm2 a-- 4.54t 0 # vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree lvm 4 51 0 wz--n- <18.17t <10.70g