On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:41 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > Unfortunately there is no way to increase this retrospectively. > Nor have we written tools to manipulate metadata areas yet. > > You're right that the best option is to add more PVs. > > Roughly: > > Create a new PV with a much larger metadata area, add it to the VG, > then stop using the too-small metadata areas on the old PVs. Hi Alasdair, thanks for the advice - very much appreciated. I'm going to test this out on a test cluster. It will buy some time whilst we consider what to do next (probably pvmove things around and recreate PVs with more metadata space). Thanks again, John. -- http://johnleach.co.uk _______________________________________________ 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/