[linux-lvm] half my space lost

[Koch, Steffen]

Hello again,

> Thank you for this explanation which sounds very clear.
> 
> One more question please. I do not understand why I can not 
> extend my VG with the second RAID partition: [root at fw root]# 
> pvdisplay /dev/md/8 pvdisplay -- "/dev/md/8" is a new 
> physical volume of 125.38 MB
> 
> [root at fw root]# vgextend secured /dev/md/8
> vgextend -- INFO: maximum logical volume size is 2 Terabyte 
> vgextend -- ERROR: physical volume "/dev/md/8" too small for 
> physical extent siz e of volume group "secured"
Seems that the extent size of your other vg is larger than the available
size of your new md8.

A question I have: Why do you want to extend your 17 GB VG with 2*128 MB??
Doesn't make much sense to me...