Hi all, I have two 200G HDs with which I would like to create is single LVM volume. To begin with, I created one single primary partition on each of the drives. Here is the fdisk output: Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 24321 195358401 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 24792 199141708+ 83 Linux Next I ran pvcreate on each. With vgcreate I then created a groups called "zinka" consisting of /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 Now I wanted to create a single logical volume called "films": lvcreate -n films -L 400G zinka However, lvcreate complained: Insufficient free extents (96310) in volume group zinka: 102400 required By trial and error, I discovered that I could only make a volume 376G in size. What is happening to those other 24Gs? Here is the output of vgdisplay: --- Volume group --- VG Name zinka System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 2 Metadata Sequence No 8 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 1 Open LV 0 Max PV 0 Cur PV 2 Act PV 2 VG Size 376.21 GB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 96310 Alloc PE / Size 96256 / 376.00 GB Free PE / Size 54 / 216.00 MB VG UUID TzCRA5-y8er-O14N-4b8D-fQMA-J1l0-iCYKtR Thanks, -- Colin Brace | cb@xxxxxx Amsterdam http://www.lim.nl
