[linux-lvm] Re: Large LVM-Partitions Update

[Stephan Mueller <smueller suse de>]

Am Fre, 08 Okt 1999 schrieben Sie:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have the following problem: my VG is 32 GB in size and there is 26 GB left.
> Now I want to create a LV with 26 GB, but LVM tells me that there is only 6,8
> GB left. OK, I created a LV with 6,8 GB. Now I wanted to extend it to 26 GB.
> Again it tells me there is only 12 GB left (Now I have nearly 19 GB). Again I
> wanted to extend but again there  is only 3 GB left and so forth. After several
> extends (with decreasing space) I could finally use all 26 GB.
> 
> Could somebody tell me, what is the problem?
> 
> Technical Data:
> Netfinity 5500 (2 CPUs, 512 MB RAM)
> 36 GB SCSI RAID 5 (/dev/sda)
> 
Some additional info:
SuSE Linux 6.2
Kernel 2.2.12
LVM 0.7
(Sorry I forgot)
> 
> Cheers
> Stephan
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