On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:24:11AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Sep 25, 2001 12:01 -0500, Gonyou, Austin wrote: > > I've made 3 partitions. /dev/hdd1 /dev/hdd2 /dev/hdb9. > > I'm going to stripe them and then use all available size. > > When I do lvcreate, it won't let me go above 16G. Whats up with that? > > Kernel 2.4.10 > > LVM 1.0 tools. > > You need to select a PE size larger than 4MB. Also realize that striping > your LVs means all your data will be lost if one disk dies. The 4Meg PEs limit the LV to 256G not 16. I regularly create 60G LVs with 4Meg PE sizes. The 16Meg size is an odd cutoff. What error are you getting from lvcreate ? patrick
