On 20 January 2016 at 13:19, Bryan Larsen <bryan@larsen.st> wrote: > I'm setting up some provisioning scripts, so I don't know the actual sizes > of the hard drives > > $ sudo lvcreate --type raid1 -m 1 -l 100%FREE -n backups hdd_vg > Insufficient free space: 781320 extents needed, but only 390658 available > $ sudo lvcreate --type raid1 -m 1 -l 50%FREE -n backups hdd_vg > Insufficient free space: 390662 extents needed, but only 390658 available the quick and dirty solution... : EXTENTS=$(sudo vgs -o vg_all --noheadings hdd_vg | awk '{print $12/2}') lvcreate --type raid1 -m 1 -l $EXTENTS -n backups hdd_vg :-) _______________________________________________ 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/