On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:31:13PM -0800, Ian Burrell wrote: > How do I reclaim the free space when a logical volume is reduced? I am > using a volume group on one physical volume and three logical volumes. > > I wanted to split off /usr/local and give it some space from reducing > another volume. I shrank the existing logical volume with "ext2fsadm". Hi Ian, did e2fsadm display some error ? That would explain that you didn't get more free space in the VG, because the LV won't be reduced in that case. I guess with 'allocated space' you mean the sum of the filesystem space. Check with "tune2fs -l ..." what the actual filesystem sizes are and how that fits the LV sizses (vgdisplay -v / lvdisplay -v /dev/VG/LV). > After, the volume group had the same amount of free space as before. > I went ahead and created the new LV in that free space but would like to > make it bigger. Now "vgdisplay" shows the volume group as being > completely full. Except the allocated space for the logical volumes are > less than the total space. > > - Ian > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** 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://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
