Re: LVM on RAID5, lvextend fails
On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:37, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> I recently completed a migration of my home fileserver form LVM on two
> ide disks to LVM on RAID-5 with 4 ide disks. I attempted to extend one
> of the logical volumes, but it failed with this message:
>
> andrew@bigmomma:~$ sudo lvextend -L+25G /dev/mommadisk/video
> Password:
> Using stripesize of last segment 4.00 KB
> Extending logical volume video to 200.00 GB
> Not enough PVs with free space available for parallel allocation.
> Consider --alloc anywhere if desperate.
"lvextend --stripes=1 ... " often works in such situations.
--Mike Bird
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