2008/11/30 Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 04:13:31PM +0100, Fabio Coatti wrote: >> /dev/md1: too many metadata areas for pvresize > > That's meant to be saying you chose to place a second copy of the metadata at > the end of the device and if you want to increase the size of the data area you > have to shift that metadata first and there is no code that does that. > > Workaround is to reduce to 1 metadata area first (backup VG, redo pvcreate with > uuid & restorefile, restore VG), then extend, then put the 2nd metadata area > back (same process) if you still want it. > Thanks for your explanation, really helpful. Now I can understand what's going up. Thanks. _______________________________________________ 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/
