[linux-lvm] Error on lvcreate or lvremove!
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Wed May 22 07:50:02 UTC 2002
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 02:46:22PM -0700, bo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I did not have this kind of problem before but I installed LVM1.1-rc2,
> I am experiencing the following errors;
>
> Problem1) could not create an LV from RAID1 vol group
> [root at localhost /]# lvcreate -l 496 -n lvraid1 volRaid1
> lvcreate -- ERROR "Operation not permitted" opening logical volume "/dev/volRaid1/lvraid1"
Looks like your logical volume numbers are invalid.
Take a VGDA backup with vgcfgbackup(8) and store /etc/lvmconf/*
in a safe location.
Run "vgscan -f" and retry.
>
> Problem2) I could not remove it
> [root at localhost /]# lvremove /dev/volRaid1/lvraid1
> lvremove -- do you really want to remove "/dev/volRaid1/lvraid1"? [y/n]: y
> lvremove -- ERROR "lv_release(): LV number" releasing logical volume "/dev/volRaid1/lvraid1"
>
> Problem3) I could not create a striped LV
> [root at localhost /]# lvcreate -l200 -i2 -I4 -n lvjb2s volDisk2
> lvcreate -- not enough allocatable/free physical volume space in "volDisk2"
> lvcreate -- please check, if physical volumes are allocatable
Could be caused by the assumed logical volume number problem but please
check that your physical volumes are allocatable with pvdisplay(8).
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
>
> Attched are more system information.
>
> Please provide me your help,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bo
>
> [root at localhost /]# pvscan
> pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md0" of VG "volRaid0" [1.95 GB / 1.95 GB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md1" of VG "volRaid0" [1.95 GB / 1.95 GB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md2" of VG "volRaid0" [1.95 GB / 1.95 GB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md3" of VG "volRaid1" [992 MB / 992 MB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md4" of VG "volRaid1" [992 MB / 992 MB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md5" of VG "volRaid5" [1.95 GB / 1.95 GB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md6" of VG "volRaid5" [1.95 GB / 1.95 GB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdc9" of VG "volDisk" [992 MB / 992 MB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdc10" of VG "volDisk2" [992 MB / 992 MB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdd9" of VG "volDisk" [992 MB / 992 MB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdd10" of VG "volDisk2" [992 MB / 992 MB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hda15" of VG "volDisk" [996 MB / 996 MB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hda16" of VG "volDisk2" [996 MB / 996 MB free]
> pvscan -- total: 13 [17.59 GB] / in use: 13 [17.59 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]
>
> [root at localhost /]# vgdisplay
> --- Volume group ---
> VG Name volRaid0
> VG Access read/write
> VG Status available/resizable
> VG # 2
> MAX LV 256
> Cur LV 0
> Open LV 0
> MAX LV Size 255.99 GB
> Max PV 256
> Cur PV 3
> Act PV 3
> VG Size 5.84 GB
> PE Size 4 MB
> Total PE 1496
> Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0
> Free PE / Size 1496 / 5.84 GB
> VG UUID 89ZFBj-yaQ0-c26m-uKgF-YhvG-2lGR-C8cvWm
>
> --- Volume group ---
> VG Name volRaid1
> VG Access read/write
> VG Status available/resizable
> VG # 3
> MAX LV 256
> Cur LV 0
> Open LV 0
> MAX LV Size 255.99 GB
> Max PV 256
> Cur PV 2
> Act PV 2
> VG Size 1.94 GB
> PE Size 4 MB
> Total PE 496
> Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0
> Free PE / Size 496 / 1.94 GB
> VG UUID 3keDZ8-jgky-uhKS-q1bi-d1Jf-qmsq-hw7GUs
>
> --- Volume group ---
> VG Name volRaid5
> VG Access read/write
> VG Status available/resizable
> VG # 4
> MAX LV 256
> Cur LV 0
> Open LV 0
> MAX LV Size 255.99 GB
> Max PV 256
> Cur PV 2
> Act PV 2
> VG Size 3.89 GB
> PE Size 4 MB
> Total PE 996
> Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0
> Free PE / Size 996 / 3.89 GB
> VG UUID U2l1OW-L3ha-r3kH-BPXw-IJP5-ksA7-77iRJB
>
> --- Volume group ---
> VG Name volDisk
> VG Access read/write
> VG Status available/resizable
> VG # 0
> MAX LV 256
> Cur LV 0
> Open LV 0
> MAX LV Size 255.99 GB
> Max PV 256
> Cur PV 3
> Act PV 3
> VG Size 2.91 GB
> PE Size 4 MB
> Total PE 745
> Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0
> Free PE / Size 745 / 2.91 GB
> VG UUID 7RhXUS-Pw5B-EBYN-GKIM-PO1d-4uD7-4apSvp
>
> --- Volume group ---
> VG Name volDisk2
> VG Access read/write
> VG Status available/resizable
> VG # 1
> MAX LV 256
> Cur LV 0
> Open LV 0
> MAX LV Size 255.99 GB
> Max PV 256
> Cur PV 3
> Act PV 3
> VG Size 2.91 GB
> PE Size 4 MB
> Total PE 745
> Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0
> Free PE / Size 745 / 2.91 GB
> VG UUID VT6shD-P4lh-Rk2g-DUHi-T2ch-p14Q-kl3BuV
>
>
*** Software bugs are stupid.
Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them ***
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