Re: lvcreate fails

I think i know what is going on


pvs shows:

[root@susedb2 dev]# pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 9.97G 9.97G
/dev/sda5 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 249.97G 180.47G

I want to use up all the remaining disk space under /dev/sda5 not /dev/sda2

when i do lvcreate -v -L 10G VolGroup00, i guess it defaults to /dev/sda2


how do i use /devsda5 instead?


"Steve Sentoff" <steve30401@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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nobody wrote:
in syslog i am getting this

device-mapper: table: device 8:5 too small for target
device-mapper: table: 253:6: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
device-mapper: table: device 8:5 too small for target
device-mapper: table: 253:6: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
"nobody" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am trying to create a logical partition within my logical volume group

first

pvs shows

[root@susedb2 ~]# pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 9.97G 9.97G
/dev/sda5 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 249.97G 180.47G

I wqant to create a logical parititon using all of the remainder
/dev/sda5

so I do this

[root@susedb2 ~]# lvcreate -v -L 180.47G VolGroup00
Finding volume group "VolGroup00"
Rounding up size to full physical extent 180.50 GB
Archiving volume group "VolGroup00" metadata (seqno 49).
Creating logical volume lvol0
Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/VolGroup00" (seqno 50).
Found volume group "VolGroup00"
Creating VolGroup00-lvol0
Loading VolGroup00-lvol0 table
device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
Failed to activate new LV.


any idea?



This is only a guess, but it seems that the rounding up has put you over
the available size. Have you tried just a bit smaller?

--
Steve


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