[linux-lvm] Disk space reporting inconsistencies

[cbolton at rarr.org.uk]

hmm yeah, but this machine doesnt have space for a cdrom to be attached
nor a floppy drive so how could I resize offline? would there be away?

On Fri, March 10, 2006 9:23 pm, Chad Rebuck wrote:
> I am just trying to fix my own problems here so don't expect what I
> say will fix your troubles...but try running ext2online with -d and -v to
> get more information.
>
> have you looked at resize2fs?
>
> http://www.2robots.com/static/man/index.php/resize2fs
>
>
> On 3/10/06, cbolton at rarr.org.uk <cbolton at rarr.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Repling to my own mail here but its on subject.
>>
>>
>> Just added a new drive to the machine, added it to the volume group,
>> moved everything from /dev/hde1 to /dev/hda, removed hde1 from the VG
>> and removed in physicaly from the machine.
>>
>> Great everything went fine, only the new drive is 60gigs so in moving
>> its only used 40gigs.  Not a problem I thought, I'll just extend the
>> logical volume, so I did lvextend and extended it by 20gigs.
>>
>> This seemed to work as well..
>>
>>
>> PV /dev/sda2   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [68.38 GB / 0    free]
>> PV /dev/sdb    VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [68.50 GB / 0    free]
>> PV /dev/hdc2   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [37.12 GB / 0    free]
>> PV /dev/hdb1   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [37.22 GB / 0    free]
>> PV /dev/hdd1   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [37.22 GB / 0    free]
>> PV /dev/hda    VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [57.25 GB / 0    free]
>> Total: 6 [305.69 GB] / in use: 6 [305.69 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]
>>
>>
>> but df -h says...
>>
>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>> 265G  248G  6.8G  98% /
>> /dev/sda1              99M   73M   22M  78% /boot
>> /dev/shm              252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
>>
>>
>> I thought I'd need to extend the file system so i did ext2online
>> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 but its says...
>>
>>
>> ext2online v1.1.18 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b ext2online: ext2_ioctl:
>> No space left on device
>>
>>
>> ext2online: unable to resize /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>>
>>
>>
>> Any ideas? I'm plain out.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On Thu, January 19, 2006 7:55 am, Chris bolton wrote:
>>
>>> nevermind got it sussed, lvm is using 10^9 for a gigabyte while df is
>>>  using 1024^3
>>>
>>> well it would appear that way anyway.
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> just added a new PV to my VG but to me there seems to be an
>>>> inconsistency between what lvm says is the disk space and what df
>>>> says.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> pvscan PV /dev/sda2   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [68.38 GB / 0    free] PV
>>>> /dev/sdb    VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [68.50 GB / 0    free]
>>>> PV /dev/hdc2   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [37.12 GB / 0    free]
>>>> PV /dev/hdb1   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [37.22 GB / 0    free]
>>>> PV /dev/hdd1   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [37.22 GB / 0    free]
>>>> PV /dev/hde1   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [37.25 GB / 0    free]
>>>> Total: 6 [285.69 GB] / in use: 6 [285.69 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> df -h /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00   265G  227G   28G  90% /
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I tried resizing the filesystem but it just says this..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ext2online  /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 ext2online v1.1.18 -
>>>> 2001/03/18 for
>>>> EXT2FS 0.5b
>>>> ext2online: ext2_ioctl: No space left on device
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ext2online: unable to resize /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am I missing something obvious here? or have I ballsed it up along
>>>> the way?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Chris.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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