[linux-lvm] pv_move failed

Heinz J . Mauelshagen mauelshagen at sistina.com
Tue Feb 25 09:19:01 UTC 2003


Dieter,

the first write to hda2 fails.
Could be a hardware installation problem with your new drive.

Have you tested if you can access hda2 fine without LVM ?

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:32:27AM +0100, Dieter Stueken wrote:
> I just got my new 240GB disk and want to move my VG to it.
> Unfortunately I get an unexpected error:
> 
> lv: /dev/backup/mirror[2]  old_dev: 22:00  new_dev: 03:02
> old_pe_sector: 117703032  new_pe_sector: 357564792
> pvmove -- opening output physical volume "/dev/hda2"
> pvmove -- llseeking input physical volume "/dev/hdc"
> pvmove -- llseeking output physical volume "/dev/hda2"
> pvmove -- /dev/hdc [PE 897 [mirror [LE 2727]] -> /dev/hda2 [PE 2727] [1/247]
> pvmove -- locking physical extent 897 of "/dev/hdc" in kernel
> pvmove -- about to read input physical volume "/dev/hdc" and to write
> output physical volume "/dev/hda2"
> pvmove -- ERROR writing output physical volume "/dev/hda2" (still
> 12648448 bytes to write)
> pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move_pe(): writing output PE" moving physical extents
> 
> this time I can not identify any reason an no messages on syslog.
> Any idea? What informations should I dump/post in addition?
> 
> I'm using SuSE8.1 with kernel 2.4.20, the LVM-version is 1.0.5.
> 
> ... and, sorry for my ill formed subject line from last week.
> 
> Dieter
> -- 
> Dieter Stüken, con terra GmbH, Münster
>      stueken at conterra.de
>      http://www.conterra.de/
>      (0)251-7474-501
> 
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