On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 19:11 +0200, Colin Brace wrote: > 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 What's the output of "fdisk -l" and "vgdisplay -v"? You could also do "lvextend --extents +54 /dev/zinka/films" to at least use up that unallocated 216MB. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
