Christian, you are probably suffering from a misalignment bug introduced in the LVM 0.9.1 Beta series :-( Send "pvdisplay -v /dev/hda10" output to me (mge@sistina.com) to check this. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:08:09PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hi > > # pvmove -v /dev/hda10 /dev/hda8 > ... > pvmove -- /dev/hda10 [PE 999 [lvol5 [LE 1365]] -> /dev/hda8 [PE 560] [1/1] > pvmove -- ERROR reading input physical volume "/dev/hda10" (still 65536 > bytes to read) > pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move_pe(): read input PV" pv_move_pe > pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move_pe(): read input PV" moving physical extents > > I wanted to release this partition from the LVM to use it with another OS. > The error once occured in June 2001 but I couldn't find a solution in the > archives. > > Any ideas? More infos below. > > bye, > > -christian- > > # uname -a > Linux app109 2.4.18-pre6 #7 Mit Jan 23 00:32:29 CET 2002 i686 unknown > > # pvmove --version > pvmove: Logical Volume Manager 1.0.1 > Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software 26/11/2001 (IOP 10) > > # pvmove -d -v /dev/hda10 /dev/hda9 > ... > <333> pe_lock_internal -- CALLED for vg0 > <4444> vg_check_name -- CALLED with VG: vg0 > <55555> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "vg0" > <55555> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0 > <4444> vg_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0 > <333> pe_lock_internal -- LEAVING with ret: 0 > <22> pv_move_pe -- LEAVING with ret: -253 > <22> lvm_error -- CALLED with: -253 > <22> lvm_error -- LEAVING with: "pv_move_pe(): read input PV" > pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move_pe(): read input PV" pv_move_pe > > <1> pv_move_pes -- LEAVING with ret: -253 > <1> lvm_error -- CALLED with: -253 > <1> lvm_error -- LEAVING with: "pv_move_pe(): read input PV" > pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move_pe(): read input PV" moving physical extents > > <1> lvm_unlock -- CALLED > <1> lvm_unlock -- LEAVING with ret: 0 > > # vgdisplay -v > --- Volume group --- > VG Name vg0 > VG Access read/write > VG Status available/resizable > VG # 0 > MAX LV 256 > Cur LV 4 > Open LV 4 > MAX LV Size 255.99 GB > Max PV 256 > Cur PV 5 > Act PV 5 > VG Size 19.53 GB > PE Size 4.00 MB > Total PE 5000 > Alloc PE / Size 2610 / 10.20 GB > Free PE / Size 2390 / 9.34 GB > VG UUID LuuTlh-HESy-ugJF-nxye-TC8f-MAe6-aIvT84 > > ... > > --- Physical volumes --- > PV Name (#) /dev/hda6 (1) > PV Status available / allocatable > Total PE / Free PE 1000 / 0 > > PV Name (#) /dev/hda7 (2) > PV Status available / allocatable > Total PE / Free PE 1000 / 1 > > PV Name (#) /dev/hda8 (3) > PV Status available / allocatable > Total PE / Free PE 1000 / 440 > > PV Name (#) /dev/hda9 (4) > PV Status available / allocatable > Total PE / Free PE 1000 / 950 > > PV Name (#) /dev/hda10 (5) > PV Status available / NOT allocatable > Total PE / Free PE 1000 / 999 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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