Andreas, could you provide a "pvdisplay -v | tail -22" output of the PV in question in order to check if you suffer from a misalocation problem which would lead to a last PE being allocated partially beyond the end of the underlying devive. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:55:30PM +0000, Andreas Gorf wrote: > I've followed the discussion started by „fejf“. > > Indeed i have the same problem that pvmove exits with an error when i try > to > move PEs from one PV to another. > > To exclude the possibility of a defect HD i tried to reproduce the error > on several > independent systems. > > The error always occurs when i try to move a complete filled PV to > another. In this case all but the last > PE on this PV are moved. The last one isn't movable whatever i did. > > If the PV wasn't filled at 100% everything goes fine. > > To reproduce the error try the following: > > - create a VG with three Pvs at the same size > - create a LV which covers the first PV completely and the second partly > - try to all PEs from the first PV to the third - the error will occur > - move the moved PEs back to the first PV - everything goes fine > - try to move the PEs lying on the second PV to the third - everything > goes fine > > > ...any ideas? > > > Andreas... > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-