[linux-lvm] lvcreate error

Patrick Caulfield caulfield at sistina.com
Mon Apr 2 14:27:47 UTC 2001


On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:32:51PM -0400, ardy at rdb.linux-help.org wrote:
> I'm trying to add a seventh logical volume on a two-disk, striped volume
> group. vgdisplay shows the following:
> 
> I've redone this system, and the only difference is that I'm striping this
> time. I was capable of creating more logical volumes when I wasn't
> striping. Also, I could create a seventh volume using 3900MB, but not
> 4000MB.

When you create a striped LV of 4g you will need 2g free on both disks. You can
check this with pvscan.


patrick




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