[linux-lvm] vgcreate

Gonyou, Austin austin at coremetrics.com
Tue Jul 3 16:35:49 UTC 2001


Try unmounting it, remounting it then extend. If that doesn't do it, unmount
it, run reiserfs_repair, then remount it, then extend. 

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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin at coremetrics.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Morris [mailto:heartboy at nycap.rr.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 8:38 AM
> To: linux-lvm at sistina.com
> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgcreate
> 
> 
> On Monday 02 July 2001 10:14 pm, you wrote:
> > Can you run vgcreate -v volname /dev/hde11, and give more 
> verbose output?
> > also, some disks, after setting the type, you may actually 
> need to reboot
> > so the kernel recognizes it properly. It could also be that 
> it's an logical
> > drive on an extended partition too.
> 
> Well, while experimenting last night, I was able to create a 
> volume group 
> with and earlier version lvm (I think beta2), so I believe it 
> is a bug in 
> beta7.  Oh, and one more thing, last night I created a volume 
> group of 10 
> gigs.  I made 2 logical volumes of around 5 gigs apiece 
> formatted with 
> reiserfs.  I then reduced the second volume by 500M and 
> extended the first 
> one by 500M.  But when I ran resize_reiserfs on the first 
> one, I got and 
> error that the first one was too small.  What is going on?  Thanks!
> Joe
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