[linux-lvm] Pvmove fails... No free PE's (and lvextend does not work...)
Anders Widman
andewid at tnonline.net
Thu Jan 17 15:19:02 UTC 2002
I currently use RedHat 7.2 with kernel 2.4.18-4, but I have tested most kernel versions from 2.4.16. I am also using lvm 1.0.1.
I have tried to move all extents and just a few (or even one) extents with no luck... Could it be that this disk is 120GB (114,44) and there would be some problems with that?
//Anders
2002-01-17 12:32:53, "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen at sistina.com> wrote:
>
>Hmmm,
>we didn't talk about versions.
>Which Linux/LVM version are you using?
>
>Another point (assuming that you might siffer from an old OBO error):
>does the extent still fail with less than 1221 extents?
>
>Regards,
>Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
>
>On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:28:39PM +0100, Anders Widman wrote:
>> Well... here is what the problem is right now.:
>>
>> First I scan all physical disks to determine where I have free space to grow..
>>
>>
>> pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
>> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdo1" of VG "Server" [55.84 GB / 0 free]
>> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdp1" of VG "Server" [28.56 GB / 0 free]
>> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdm1" of VG "Server" [76.28 GB / 0 free]
>> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdn1" of VG "Server" [76.28 GB / 0 free]
>> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdk1" of VG "Server" [38.12 GB / 0 free]
>> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdl1" of VG "Server" [55.84 GB / 0 free]
>> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdg1" of VG "Server" [55.88 GB / 0 free]
>> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdh1" of VG "Server" [55.88 GB / 0 free]
>> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hde1" of VG "Server" [114.44 GB / 38.16 GB free]
>> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdf1" of VG "Server" [57.22 GB / 0 free]
>> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdc1" of VG "Server" [71.53 GB / 0 free]
>> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdd1" of VG "Server" [71.53 GB / 0 free]
>> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb1" of VG "Server" [4.28 GB / 0 free]
>> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb3" of VG "Server" [52.88 GB / 0 free]
>> pvscan -- total: 14 [815.29 GB] / in use: 14 [815.29 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]
>>
>> --- Volume group ---
>> VG Name Server
>> VG Access read/write
>> VG Status available/resizable
>> VG # 0
>> MAX LV 256
>> Cur LV 1
>> Open LV 1
>> MAX LV Size 1.00 TB
>> Max PV 256
>> Cur PV 14
>> Act PV 14
>> VG Size 814.56 GB
>> PE Size 32.00 MB
>> Total PE 26066
>> Alloc PE / Size 24845 / 776.41 GB
>> Free PE / Size 1221 / 38.16 GB
>> VG UUID ElJLCd-ln4W-k3YA-yg8W-HmVU-gs0O-mcR0pA
>>
>> --- Physical volume ---
>> PV Name /dev/hde1
>> VG Name Server
>> PV Size 114.50 GB / NOT usable 62.91 MB [LVM: 142.00 KB]
>> PV# 13
>> PV Status available
>> Allocatable yes
>> Cur LV 1
>> PE Size (KByte) 32768
>> Total PE 3662
>> Free PE 1221
>> Allocated PE 2441
>> PV UUID 7ScWsg-0vX4-ccX3-W1sO-mFnz-0Sl0-gDWKmM
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Now I use "lvextend -l +1221 /dev/Server/FTPRoot /dev/hde1" to grow my LV "FTPRoot". It worked fine on my new disk (to wich I also moved the old PE's from the bad disk), but not on this one.
What
>> can be the problem. Where should I even begin to look?
>>
>> lvextend -- extending logical volume "/dev/Server/FTPRoot" to 814.56 GB
>> lvextend -- not enough free/allocatable physical extents to extend logical volume /dev/Server/FTPRoot
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>> //Anders
>>
>>
>> 2002-01-16 19:28:03, Anders Widman <andewid at tnonline.net> wrote:
>>
>> >No, my LV is not striped, so this should have worked. Well.. I have bought another disk and will move all pe's to that one instead. Hopefully this will work better.
>> >
>> >//Anders
>> >
>> >2002-01-16 16:08:44, "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen at sistina.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>Anders,
>> >>
>> >>is your LV striped? In this case, pvmove complains because it can't
>> >>move 2 stripes onto one PV.
>> >>
>> >>If so, you need another disk to be pvcreated/vgextend to your VG in order
>> >>to pvmove data over.
>> >>
>> >>On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:52:18AM +0100, Anders Widman wrote:
>> >>> I have a bad disk (hdl1) that needs to be replaced. It is 40GB, or 1220 PE's. I have another disk which is about 120GB, but has 1221 free PE's. Both disks are in the same VG, Server and the same
LV,
>> >>> FTPRoot. When I try "pvmove -v /dev/hdl1" it failes (doesn't even start, really) and tells me I haven't any free PE's.
>> >>>
>> >>> What can I have missed...
>> >>>
>> >>> 1) I shrick the filesystem first with about 60GB
>> >>> 2) I use lvreduce to shrick the LV with about 59GB
>> >>> 3) I tried "pvmove -v /dev/hdl" to move all PE's on this 40GB disk to the free ones on the other disks. This should have worked, shoudln't it?
>> >>>
>> >>> have I missed something critical?
>> >>>
>> >>> //Anders
>> >>>
>> >>>
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>> >>
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>> >>Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
>> >>
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