[linux-lvm] can i extend a volumen bigger 256 gigas ?thx

Erik Nugent erik.nugent at mso.umt.edu
Mon May 5 15:20:01 UTC 2003


when you create your volume group you can change the extent size with
the -s switch. recent versions of LVM use 32MB as the default which
gives you a max LV of about 2TB. the old default extent size of 4MB gave
you about 255GB max LV size.

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 13:39, fnt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It is possible to extend a volumen more than 256 gigas?
> it doesnt let me grow the space.
> this is muy info :
> root]# cat /proc/lvm/global
> LVM module LVM version 1.0.3(19/02/2002)
> 
> Total:  1 VG  2 PVs  1 LV (1 LV open 1 times)
> 
> Global: 449424 bytes malloced   IOP version: 10   1175 days 12:40:03 active
> 
> VG:  gl  [2 PV, 1 LV/1 open]  PE Size: 4096 KB
>   Usage [KB/PE]: 294883328 /71993 total  113950720 /27820 used  180932608
> /44173 free
>   PVs: [AA] ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 113950720 /27820   113950720
> /27820          0 /0
>        [AA] ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 180932608 /44173          0 /0
> 180932608 /44173
>     LV:  [AWDL  ] vol1                     113950720 /27820    1x open
> 
> i have installed: lvm-1.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm
> 
> thanks on advanced.
> 
> 
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