> >>>Is it better to create 3 partitions 2 x230G + 1G > >>>Is it better to create 2 paritions 230G and 231G, put both in a vg, > >ie the first option. I meant the second option:-) > Could you, please tell me what I am doing wrong? TIA. > casals:~# lvextend -l +134 /dev/vg00/lvol0 /dev/hdc3 > Using stripesize of last segment 8KB > Insufficient allocatable extents suitable for parallel use for logical > volume lvol0: 118816 required If you don't specify the stripe settings, lvextend uses whatever the last segment of the LV you're extending uses i.e. 2 stripes in this case. So you need to specify -i1 to add a new segment with just one stripe. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com _______________________________________________ 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/