On Tuesday 15 September 2009 21:49:39 Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:37:44PM +1000, Hugh wrote: > > Sep 10 20:55:46 fc11-64 kernel: device-mapper: table: device 8:18 > > too small for target > > There's your answer: You're trying to make it bigger than the underlying > device. > > Use pvs -v to check device sizes for discrepancies. > (--units s if necessary). > > Alasdair Thanks, now I can see what the problem is: [root@fc11-64 ~]# pvs -v Scanning for physical volume names PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree DevSize PV UUID /dev/sda2 vg_fc1164 lvm2 a- 99.80G 0 99.80G qunnek-OG2y-hp2j-31J8- J3HT-0Aye-3w2rMN /dev/sdb2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 67.91G 20.00G 47.93G eCuGyH-jV7L-Tgdg-JyYW- sWK1-ehZY-OLw0WS How is this possible? What's the solution? How can I grow the DevSize? Probably a better question to ask is, how can I add the unused space into the device and then the volume? Maybe I should provide some more background. I have a vmware virtual disk and I have grown the disk size by 20G. [root@fc11-64 ~]# parted -l Model: VMware, VMware Virtual S (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 107GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 210MB 210MB primary ext3 boot 2 210MB 107GB 107GB primary lvm Model: VMware, VMware Virtual S (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 73.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 74.0MB 74.0MB primary ext3 boot 2 74.0MB 51.5GB 51.5GB primary lvm Model: Linux device-mapper (dm) Disk /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00: 49.3GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00B 49.3GB 49.3GB ext3 Model: Linux device-mapper (dm) Disk /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01: 2114MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00B 2114MB 2114MB linux-swap Model: Linux device-mapper (dm) Disk /dev/mapper/vg_fc1164-lv_swap: 4194MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00B 4194MB 4194MB linux-swap Model: Linux device-mapper (dm) Disk /dev/mapper/vg_fc1164-lv_root: 103GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00B 103GB 103GB ext3 _______________________________________________ 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/