Hi, I have been using LVM2 for a while now and I am very pleased with it. However, I have currently run into a srtange limitation that I do not understand. I have a vg named 'data' and I would like to migrate the data off of one of its partitions. Unfortunately the pvmove command will not let me, despite the fact that I have plenty of free extents. When I run pvmove, I get: pvmove /dev/hdc3 Insufficient suitable contiguous allocatable extents for logical volume pvmove0: 6250 more required Unable to allocate temporary LV for pvmove. The pvdisplay for /dev/hdc3 gives: --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdc3 VG Name data PV Size 33.30 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 8526 Free PE 484 Allocated PE 8042 PV UUID AheuvH-YyXp-83Hl-23JI-y7Kc-eTXt-rMLEm5 Only 8042 allocated PEs, tet, the vgdisplay data gives: --- Volume group --- VG Name data System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 9 Metadata Sequence No 80 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 26 Open LV 22 Max PV 0 Cur PV 9 Act PV 9 VG Size 71.46 GB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 18293 Alloc PE / Size 9061 / 35.39 GB Free PE / Size 9232 / 36.06 GB VG UUID XLN0qj-39pm-RhwL-Ragk-KJoP-UZ0R-OWDSmA As you can see, there are at least 9232 free extents, more than the 8042 allocated PEs from /dev/hdc3. And a lvdisplay shows that all my logical volumes have: Allocation inherit So, why is it looking for contiguous PEs? What does the inherit signify (I know it is not contiguous, but it hardly seems like the opposite?) How can I get the data off of my /dev/hdc3 partition? Thanks for any insights, -Martin ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.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/
