[linux-lvm] Problems resizing physical volume
Avi Kivity
avi at redhat.com
Wed Apr 14 15:04:34 UTC 2010
On 04/14/2010 05:59 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>>>> [root at violet-regb ~]# pvmove /dev/sda2:4704-4765 /dev/sda2:4384-4445
>>>> No extents available for allocation
>>> At this point I gave up. Is there any way to accomplish this?
>> pvmove normally is used to move segments off the pv to other pvs in
>> order to free up that pv for removal. So it is failing since it can not
>> find space on other disks, since you limited its search to specific
>> extents on the same disk. You need to add --alloc anywhere to stop it
>> from excluding the current disk from its search. The need for this is
>> kind of silly given that you explicitly tell it where to move to, it
>> should probably be assumed, but isn't.
>
> I'll try it out. Thanks.
>
It worked, but only after I removed the destination extent specification.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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