Hi. I'm having some problems with a newly created volume group. I got 3 harddisks and I want to remove one of them so I just use pvmove like with lvm version 1. Here is the output from pvmove: thriller ~ # pvmove -i 5 -v /dev/hda12 Finding volume group "data" Archiving volume group "data" metadata. Creating logical volume pvmove0 Moving 274 extents of logical volume data/lvol1 Found volume group "data" Found volume group "data" Updating volume group metadata Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/data" Found volume group "data" Found volume group "data" Loading data-pvmove0 device-mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalid argument Couldn't load device 'data-pvmove0'. ABORTING: Temporary mirror activation failed. Found volume group "data" Loading data-lvol1 device-mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalid argument Couldn't load device 'data-lvol1'. Now any access on the device blocks until I do "pvmove --abort" which I think is very bad. "pvmove --abort" says: thriller ~ # pvmove --abort Unable to unlock logical volume "pvmove0" "lvm version" says: LVM version: 2.00.07 (2003-09-16) Library version: 1.00.05-ioctl-cvs (2003-09-01) Driver version: 4.0.0 Finally "vgdisplay -v" says: thriller ~ # vgdisplay -v Finding all volume groups Finding volume group "data" --- Volume group --- VG Name data System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 25 Metadata Sequence No 30 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 256 Cur LV 1 Open LV 0 Max PV 256 Cur PV 25 Act PV 25 VG Size 235.44 GB PE Size 32.00 MB Total PE 7534 Alloc PE / Size 5399 / 168.72 GB Free PE / Size 2135 / 66.72 GB VG UUID uxxCUu-7LkL-dnPb-OgxY-rXXa-N75i-YDi8dM --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/data/lvol1 VG Name data LV UUID BmlFlW-5UHo-zsMp-01fY-I7kL-6ve7-eHGC7U LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 2 LV Size 168.72 GB Current LE 5399 Segments 18 Allocation next free (default) Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:0 --- Physical volumes --- PV Name /dev/hdc9 PV UUID waZaU5-0Oui-ZTsT-upUq-FDmk-iIQb-h1xxTM PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdc10 PV UUID 7PvjC2-j1le-Oj0z-L01d-p8Ot-9Erv-FPwoSE PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdc11 PV UUID 4EtKur-Ya21-MQeP-jtWD-2f7P-aMUf-aXAH6s PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdc12 PV UUID hCj4YJ-BuwB-Fu2i-7ZW2-mYc7-2OPv-9lchLA PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdc13 PV UUID vXhcMs-2oIN-qZvx-uG8t-L0ZV-Aiwd-hJBfiW PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdc14 PV UUID fQ3Lyh-34x8-4yNk-yKvs-9nlG-Lc4k-6f9jm4 PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdc15 PV UUID I512OV-W7OL-8X7e-LCxc-6VQ2-GOax-mtFcqo PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdc16 PV UUID Vd65BG-zK4K-S86B-2tWN-KB7e-gk18-reD6w3 PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 306 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdc6 PV UUID 9HO3jv-JCEt-gaCz-89HZ-STOt-BuBM-yXqL3p PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdc7 PV UUID MK5WTc-tKJg-3wxR-F7NG-wYGr-cfR7-ZLGQqe PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdd16 PV UUID YVU22m-AKxJ-Uxut-mKa6-4oCb-DqLW-wT3aW6 PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 306 / 0 PV Name /dev/hda12 PV UUID Pz5Gr1-t7bZ-EDBL-0IB7-G2p4-XPrh-shBjz5 PV Status NOT allocatable Total PE / Free PE 274 / 0 PV Name /dev/hda13 PV UUID atxcfU-VP2K-HnLw-Olrd-EuiF-EuWn-7eFaDz PV Status NOT allocatable Total PE / Free PE 243 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdd10 PV UUID FFvVPn-dJry-uEvQ-SuvK-3246-K7VA-o08L6n PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdd11 PV UUID 2Ew4mp-BFoY-i4Md-oRP3-hr6W-0PTo-Ga6fKj PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdd12 PV UUID es2HMH-mvUB-3BJF-T4PK-vZTq-8Csk-wht77p PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdd13 PV UUID vZ7FO6-0PoC-Y53O-LZTz-gJWq-wVe5-2j9K4S PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdd14 PV UUID MrKuVR-VksZ-DgRX-yS3d-Qwhx-gqHd-S05tPu PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 0 PV Name /dev/hdc8 PV UUID QysxPp-6OLy-Nojy-FUPE-yFzW-HSbI-1Zf9xb PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 305 PV Name /dev/hdd5 PV UUID GMEynu-r6a6-LsNN-E8ne-36GG-Fmqy-fZLsNZ PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 305 PV Name /dev/hdd6 PV UUID oj4UnV-PZV2-K454-WjtL-Nqr9-d6YH-I6BlxK PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 305 PV Name /dev/hdd7 PV UUID mKIqwS-q2YQ-KgUA-1HDs-5I5E-cyT1-8nEcE7 PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 305 PV Name /dev/hdd8 PV UUID t4dgxB-qm81-H8MK-FYhd-Pukf-OgIj-1GLivd PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 305 PV Name /dev/hdd9 PV UUID 1uDaGG-plfm-5v34-945e-cWex-ZhHO-yJ3LCC PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 305 PV Name /dev/hdd15 PV UUID QkdcqL-B53G-JbSW-w9Rd-1n0i-qGWO-0KMxSa PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 305 / 305 Is this a bug in lvm2 or devicemapper or a kernel bug? Or am I doing something wrong? TIA and bye Frank Benkstein. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/