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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Problem Executing "lvcreate" Command Post 302707935 by mojoman on Sunday 30th of September 2012 12:41:58 PM
Old 09-30-2012
Problem Executing "lvcreate" Command
Hi everyone, I use Fedora 17.

I used gparted to created a dev/sdb2 partition. I then used vgextend to extend the volume group. The output of vgdisplay shows the condition of my volume group:

Code:
--- Volume group ---
  VG Name               vg_data
  System ID             
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        2
  Metadata Sequence No  86
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                1
  Open LV               1
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                2
  Act PV                2
  VG Size               297.59 GiB
  PE Size               32.00 MiB
  Total PE              9523
  Alloc PE / Size       6249 / 195.28 GiB
  Free  PE / Size       3274 / 102.31 GiB
  VG UUID               AR8t1M-VnYV-TIFC-tCzi-ZeO6-gFUd-SZo2Kw

Clearly there is enough free space for me to create additional logical volumes.
I want to make a new one called lv_windows7.
When I execute this command, I get the following

Code:
 [root@speed-daemon ~]# lvcreate -L 99G -n lv_windows7 vg_data
  device-mapper: resume ioctl on  failed: Invalid argument
  Unable to resume vg_data-lv_windows7 (253:4)
  Failed to activate new LV.
  Attempted to decrement suspended device counter below zero.

This is quite odd. And when I look up in the logs I see:

Code:
Sep 30 12:34:41 speed-daemon kernel: [ 1216.060250] device-mapper: table: 253:4: sdb1 too small for target: start=409536512, len=2883584, dev_size=409600000

For some odd reason, the kernel is not realizing that it should put the new space on /dev/sdb2. I installed system-config-lvm and it shows me that the volume group consists of /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2. I can cheat and use this utility to make the new lvm but I works as a systems administrator so I like to learn via command line. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

vgextend

VGEXTEND(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       VGEXTEND(8)

NAME

       vgextend - add physical volumes to a volume group

SYNOPSIS

       vgextend  [-A|--autobackup  y|n]  [-d|--debug]  [-h|-?|--help] [--restoremissing] [-f|--force] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] [ PHYSICAL DEVICE
       OPTIONS ] VolumeGroupName PhysicalDevicePath [PhysicalDevicePath...]

DESCRIPTION

       vgextend allows you to add one or more initialized physical volumes ( see pvcreate(8) ) to an existing volume group to extend it  in  size.
       Moreover,  it  allows  you to re-add a physical volume that has gone missing previously, due to a transient device failure, without re-ini-
       tialising it. Use vgextend --restoremissing to that effect.

       If PhysicalDevicePath was not previously configured for LVM with pvcreate (8), the device will be initialized with the same default  values
       used  with  pvcreate.  If non-default pvcreate values are are desired, they may be given on the commandline with the same options as pvcre-
       ate.  See PHYSICAL DEVICE OPTIONS for available options.  Note that the restore-related options such as --restorefile, --uuid, and --physi-
       calvolumesize are not available.  If a restore operation is needed, use pvcreate (8) and vgcfgrestore (8).

OPTIONS

       See lvm for common options.

PHYSICAL DEVICE OPTIONS

       The  following  options	are  available	for initializing physical devices in the volume group.	These options are further described in the
       pvcreate man page.

       -f, --force

       -y, --yes

       -Z, --zero y|n

       --labelsector sector

       --metadatasize size

       [--metadataignorey|n]

       --pvmetadatacopies copies

       --dataalignment alignment

       --dataalignmentoffset alignment_offset

Examples
       "vgextend vg00 /dev/sda4 /dev/sdn1" tries to extend the existing volume group "vg00"  by  the  new  physical  volumes  (see  pvcreate(8)  )
       "/dev/sdn1" and /dev/sda4".

SEE ALSO

       lvm(8), vgcreate(8), vgreduce(8), pvcreate(8)

Sistina Software UK					 LVM TOOLS 2.02.95(2) (2012-03-06)					       VGEXTEND(8)
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