Nicholas Robinson [npr@bottlehall.co.uk] wrote: > The pvmove worked, I've moved the boot to the new disc, so my old disc > is now effectively redundant. The problem is that, as I suspected, I > can't pvmove off my usb drive! > > I spotted these messages in /var/log/messages > > Oct 29 03:44:06 oak kernel: device-mapper: table: device 8:2 too small > for target > Oct 29 03:44:06 oak kernel: device-mapper: table: 253:0: linear: > dm-linear: Device lookup failed > Oct 29 03:44:06 oak kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to > table device 8:2 is /dev/sda2. Some one is trying to use /dev/sda2 with incorrect values (start sector or length). This looks odd and this happens only when you try 'pvmove' on the USB disk. What does the pvdisplay on /dev/sda2 report its size (PV Size and is that accurate). It maybe incorrect.... Thanks, Malahal. _______________________________________________ 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/
