[linux-lvm] Help : pvmove -- not enough free/allocatable physical extents

[Nils Juergens]

On Tue, 22.07.03, kiran dalvi <kiran_bd at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I haved created volume group using 3 partitions on my machine
> (/dev/hda7,/dev/hda8,/dev/hda9).All the partions are of same size 200 
> MB.Then
> I have created stripped logical volume on 3 partitions using following 
> command.
> 
> #lvcreate -i3 -I4 -l24 -nmy_stripped_lv1 my_volume_group
> 
> I have also tried extending logical volume and shrinking logical volume. All
> this worked fine for me.
> 
> Now I tried pvmove command.
> 
>        #pvmove /dev/hda9
> 
> But it will be giving following error message

[snipped]

My guess is that lvm wont move your pe's to one of the other partitions
because the lv is striped across three different partitions and pvmoving one
of the stripes to a partition with another stripe already on it would defy
the purpose of multi-striped lvs.

So the error message is a bit missleading but still correct. Lvm has nowhere
to move the pe's from /dev/hda9 to, because it tries to keep the lv across
three different partitions.

cya,

Nils


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