but I've had no responses. I'm sure I've discovered a bug but nobody has answered my question of offered any advice or requested any further information. Please look at my problem and see if there is anything which might help me. This is the url: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1263530 I'll post it here too so that if for some reason you can't access the forum: device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument Failed to suspend LogVol00 I hope this is the right forum. I've read hundreds of threads on this problem but they seem to be intermittent and the resolution has been using a different kernel version. I'm using the latest kernel but I still have this problem [root@fc11-64 ~]# rpm -q kernel kernel-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64 [root@fc11-64 ~]# rpm -qa | grep lvm lvm2-2.02.48-2.fc11.x86_64 system-config-lvm-1.1.9-1.fc11.noarch [root@fc11-64 ~]# lvresize -v -d -L 65.9375G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 Finding volume group VolGroup00 Archiving volume group "VolGroup00" metadata (seqno 5). Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 65.94 GB Found volume group "VolGroup00" Found volume group "VolGroup00" Loading VolGroup00-LogVol00 table device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument Failed to suspend LogVol00 Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/VolGroup00" (seqno 6). [root@fc11-64 ~]# lvextend -v -d -L 65.9375G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 Finding volume group VolGroup00 Archiving volume group "VolGroup00" metadata (seqno 5). Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 65.94 GB Found volume group "VolGroup00" Found volume group "VolGroup00" Loading VolGroup00-LogVol00 table device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument Failed to suspend LogVol00 Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/VolGroup00" (seqno 6). Running Logical Volume Manager gui and attempting to extend the volume results in the same error. [root@fc11-64 ~]# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sdb2 VG Name VolGroup00 PV Size 67.93 GB / not usable 24.13 MB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 2173 Free PE 640 Allocated PE 1533 PV UUID eCuGyH-jV7L-Tgdg-JyYW-sWK1-ehZY-OLw0WS </cut> [root@fc11-64 ~]# vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name VolGroup00 System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 5 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 2 Open LV 0 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 67.91 GB PE Size 32.00 MB Total PE 2173 Alloc PE / Size 1533 / 47.91 GB Free PE / Size 640 / 20.00 GB VG UUID 7I9mBS-xzMJ-L1fC-7IT4-ckJq-g8r3-pv333k </cut> [root@fc11-64 ~]# lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID ph5nOV-3cyI-fFNV-WlyQ-rDI8-dTsY-5FcWn2 LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 1.97 GB Current LE 63 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:2 </cut> --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID ZGiTvh-XhRo-sLk5-bkJX-U30G-xkCD-rYszvt LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 45.94 GB Current LE 1470 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:3 </cut> [root@fc11-64 ~]# tail -3 /var/log/messages Sep 10 20:55:46 fc11-64 kernel: device-mapper: table: device 8:18 too small for target Sep 10 20:55:46 fc11-64 kernel: device-mapper: table: 253:3: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed Sep 10 20:55:46 fc11-64 kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table [root@fc11-64 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 107.3 GB, 107374182400 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13054 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000d4599 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 26 204800 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 26 13054 104651423+ 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/sdb: 73.0 GB, 73014444032 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8876 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xd426be2d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 9 72261 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 10 6266 50259352+ 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/dm-0: 102.9 GB, 102965968896 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12518 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 4194 MB, 4194304000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 509 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-2: 2113 MB, 2113929216 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 257 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-3: 49.3 GB, 49325015040 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5996 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-3 doesn't contain a valid partition table Anybody know what the problem is? TIA, Hugh _______________________________________________ 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/
