out of which only 100 gb is used by 2 logical volumes /dev/vg00/lvol0 and /dev/vg00/lvol0 respectively (both are 50 gb each).
Whenever i use vgreduce command to reduce the size of volume group i get below error.
Code:
# vgreduce vg00 -a
Physical volume "/dev/xvdb5" still in use
How can i reduce the volume group size to free up 100 gb?
Code:
# lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol0
VG Name vg00
LV UUID tji5FT-GuoG-jfLN-2KXg-Ra0a-6SQA-4RR4r7
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 50.00 GB
Current LE 12800
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:0
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol1
VG Name vg00
LV UUID xdqsuf-jl1U-TY1h-0fIa-kywO-I6fu-7UVSHB
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 50.00 GB
Current LE 12800
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:1
vgdisplay
Code:
# vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name vg00
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 5
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 2
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 200.00 GB
PE Size 4.00 MB
Total PE 51199
Alloc PE / Size 25600 / 100.00 GB
Free PE / Size 25599 / 100.00 GB
VG UUID NL5ws1-uaxQ-Wmtm-75GZ-WnQX-S7Vd-XeHJuS
Greetings Pinga,
as frappa mentionned vgreduce is to remove PVs (which are finally disk devices...), what was your intention? For you still have in that vg 100GB unallocated; is vg00 the one containing your OS?
Vbe the actual problem is this.
I have 200gb of harddisk file attached to this machine(virtual machine). But due to space crunch i have to reduce this 200 gb to 150 gb or less.
How would i go about it? Only 6.7 gb /200 gb is used till now.
if I understood, you'd like to use the remaining space on the PV that is non currently in use by the existing LVs?
Why don't you create new LVs and assign them to some needed mountpoint?
^^No its not the case i want to reduce the size of harddisk (I mean virtual harddisk for e.g vmdk file in vmware ,img file in Oracle VM).
I m using Oracle VM 2.2.
There is one more issue now.
I somehow managed to reduce the size of virtual disk from 200 to 150 but i dont see any changes.
Code:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/xvda: 13.3 GB, 13316728320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1619 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/xvda1 * 1 12 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/xvda2 13 1357 10803712+ 83 Linux
/dev/xvda3 1358 1619 2104515 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/xvdb: 161.0 GB, 161061273600 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19581 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/xvdb1 1 26108 209712478+ 5 Extended
/dev/xvdb5 1 26108 209712447 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/xvdb is changed from 161.0 GB from 200GB.
but still vgdisplay is showing 200GB????
Code:
# vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name vg00
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 6
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 2
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 200.00 GB
PE Size 4.00 MB
Total PE 51199
Alloc PE / Size 25600 / 100.00 GB
Free PE / Size 25599 / 100.00 GB
VG UUID NL5ws1-uaxQ-Wmtm-75GZ-WnQX-S7Vd-XeHJuS
---------- Post updated at 04:20 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:14 AM ----------
Code:
# pvscan
PV /dev/xvdb5 VG vg00 lvm2 [200.00 GB / 100.00 GB free]
Total: 1 [200.00 GB] / in use: 1 [200.00 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
If you notice the above output /dev/xvdb5 is showing 200gb but actually it is 150 gb only
The best would be of course to umount the filesystems of vg00 then since you have only one PV, use vgremove to remove the vg group and recreate it again...
You would have to get it to recognize the new size of your virtual PV (never tried in vmware...) that means a pvcreate...
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