[linux-lvm] not enough free/allocatable physical extents to e xtend logical vo lume

[AJ Lewis]

You cannot extend striped volumes past the end of the physical volumes 
they were originally created on in LVM1.  See
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/x140.html  - this limitation is 
addressed in LVM2.

On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 00:31 US/Central, 
Taylor_Carpenter at Dell.com wrote:

> [root]# lvextend -L +10G /dev/Scratch/Scratch /dev/sde1
> lvextend -- rounding size to stripe boundary size
> lvextend -- extending logical volume "/dev/Scratch/Scratch" to 111.02 
> GB
> lvextend -- not enough free/allocatable physical extents to extend 
> logical
> volume "/dev/Scratch/Scratch"
>
>
> I will try -l now.  Here is a disk already in the group.  It is an 
> identical
> disk.
>
>
> [root]# pvdisplay /dev/sdd1
> --- Physical volume ---
> PV Name               /dev/sdd1
> VG Name               Scratch
> PV Size               33.91 GB [71119692 secs] / NOT usable 4.19 MB 
> [LVM:
> 161 KB]
> PV#                   3
> PV Status             available
> Allocatable           yes
> Cur LV                1
> PE Size (KByte)       4096
> Total PE              8680
> Free PE               60
> Allocated PE          8620
> PV UUID               S02n1R-lmdI-CU75-hMVp-gwxl-PAwk-dQiNP5
>
>
> I will use its allocated extent size for the new one
>
> lvextend -l +8620 /dev/Scratch/Scratch /dev/sde1
> lvextend -- rounding size to stripe boundary size
> lvextend -- extending logical volume "/dev/Scratch/Scratch" to 134.70 
> GB
> lvextend -- not enough free/allocatable physical extents to extend 
> logical
> volume "/dev/Scratch/Scratch"
>
> [root]# pvdisplay /dev/sde1
> --- Physical volume ---
> PV Name               /dev/sde1
> VG Name               Scratch
> PV Size               33.91 GB [71119692 secs] / NOT usable 4.19 MB 
> [LVM:
> 161 KB]
> PV#                   4
> PV Status             NOT available
> Allocatable           yes
> Cur LV                0
> PE Size (KByte)       4096
> Total PE              8680
> Free PE               8680
> Allocated PE          0
> PV UUID               x4xXPp-UXDb-fBfO-tnpb-E4HT-q8qJ-p5X6HT
>
> [root]# lvextend -l +7000 /dev/Scratch/Scratch /dev/sde1
> lvextend -- rounding size to stripe boundary size
> lvextend -- extending logical volume "/dev/Scratch/Scratch" to 128.37 
> GB
> lvextend -- not enough free/allocatable physical extents to extend 
> logical
> volume "/dev/Scratch/Scratch"
>
> The volume is using striping.  Is there some issue with that?  Do I 
> have to
> do some other steps to add the new disk so it is available?
>
>
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