Thanks Christian, that makes perfect sense. I don't know why it didn't click for me earlier but I get it now. -----Original Message----- From: linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Christian Hack Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:50 AM To: 'LVM general discussion and development' Subject: RE: Why do I only have 11.51GB Free PE's when DF saysIhave 441GB free in the volume? Your file system although only 59% used still occupies the PEs. The space is allocated by the file system and thus also by the logical volume group. To fix this you need to: 1) Unmount and reduce your file system size first. 2) Then reduce the logical volume using lvreduce 3) Then use pvmove to remove the failing physical device The tool you use to resize your file system is obviously dependant on the file system, and I can't see what you are using so you'll have to work that out yourself. I think this is all right, but it's off the top of my head so if I'm wrong please correct me guys. CH > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com > [mailto:linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Benjamin Runnels > Sent: Monday, 30 August 2004 1:49 PM > To: 'LVM general discussion and development' > Subject: Why do I only have 11.51GB Free PE's > when DF says Ihave 441GB free in the volume? > > > Anyone know how I can free up some PE's so I can do pvmove on > a 160gb PV I > think may be failing? > > > > p4:~ # vgdisplay > --- Volume group --- > VG Name solar > System ID > Format lvm2 > Metadata Areas 6 > Metadata Sequence No 20 > VG Access read/write > VG Status resizable > MAX LV 256 > Cur LV 1 > Open LV 1 > Max PV 256 > Cur PV 6 > Act PV 6 > VG Size 1.01 TB > PE Size 4.00 MB > Total PE 265091 > Alloc PE / Size 262144 / 1.00 TB > Free PE / Size 2947 / 11.51 GB > VG UUID nEwuBX-aKsk-gFIb-DrqQ-zREN-33SE-R09Q4b > > p4:~ # df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 38569376 11102844 27466532 29% / > tmpfs 128216 4 128212 1% /dev/shm > /dev/mapper/solar-saturn > 1073709052 632227192 441481860 59% /media/saturn > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
