Thank you all very much. I appreciate the help. Sumant
On 7/10/2013 5:06 AM, maxplayer wrote: > You made a mistake when you try to extend your LV, first of all you > have to check what PV you have (pvs will show you that), then you'll > have to check if there is some free space available on your vg (vgs > will tell you that) > > Then you will be able to add space (regarding how much you have > available from vgs). > > Le 10/07/2013 10:32, Hashem Nasarat a écrit : >> Delete some old kernels? >> >> On 07/09/2013 10:17 PM, Sumant Raykar wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am new to Debian. I have Wheezy installed on my Thinkpad x230 >>> laptop. My kernel is 3.2.0-4-amd64. >>> The problem I am getting is that my "/" directory is 100% full. >>> Because of this, I am unable to update my kernel as I get an >>> insufficient space error. However, my hard disk has almost 300 GiB >>> free. >>> >>> When I tried to run lvxtend to expand the / directory, I get an >>> "Insufficient free space: 256 extents needed, but only 0 available" >>> error. The filesystem is ext4 and I am using an encrypted LVM. >>> Some more detail can be found in these outputs: >>> >>> The problem: >>> >>> root@debian:/# lvextend -L +1G /dev/mapper/debian-root >>> Incorrect metadata area header checksum on /dev/sda1 at offset 4096 >>> Extending logical volume root to 1.32 GiB >>> Insufficient free space: 256 extents needed, but only 0 available >>> >>> Some tests: >>> >>> root@debian:/# df -h >>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >>> rootfs 322M 321M 0 100% / >>> udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev >>> tmpfs 367M 816K 366M 1% /run >>> /dev/mapper/debian-root 322M 321M 0 100% / >>> tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock >>> tmpfs 734M 84K 734M 1% /run/shm >>> /dev/sda1 228M 19M 197M 9% /boot >>> /dev/mapper/debian-home 275G 59G 203G 23% /home >>> /dev/mapper/debian-tmp 368M 11M 339M 3% /tmp >>> /dev/mapper/debian-usr 8.3G 5.3G 2.6G 68% /usr >>> /dev/mapper/debian-var 2.8G 679M 2.0G 26% /var >>> >>> >>> root@debian:/# pvdisplay >>> Incorrect metadata area header checksum on /dev/sda1 at offset 4096 >>> --- Physical volume --- >>> PV Name /dev/dm-0 >>> VG Name debian >>> PV Size 297.85 GiB / not usable 2.00 MiB >>> Allocatable yes (but full) >>> PE Size 4.00 MiB >>> Total PE 76249 >>> Free PE 0 >>> Allocated PE 76249 >>> PV UUID NKMEex-9pcW-QMSi-dKEX-5XOI-nBXc-glrtNz >>> >>> "/dev/sda1" is a new physical volume of "243.00 MiB" >>> --- NEW Physical volume --- >>> PV Name /dev/sda1 >>> VG Name >>> PV Size 243.00 MiB >>> Allocatable NO >>> PE Size 0 >>> Total PE 0 >>> Free PE 0 >>> Allocated PE 0 >>> PV UUID a1KkXm-XB4C-o5SH-jnHz-BdZJ-u8v3-LscZ7W >>> >>> >>> root@debian:/# mount >>> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) >>> proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) >>> udev on /dev type devtmpfs >>> (rw,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=467547,mode=755) >>> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts >>> (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) >>> tmpfs on /run type tmpfs >>> (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=375388k,mode=755) >>> /dev/mapper/debian-root on / type ext4 >>> (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,barrier=1,stripe=4,data=ordered) >>> tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs >>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k) >>> tmpfs on /run/shm type tmpfs >>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=750760k) >>> /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime,errors=continue) >>> /dev/mapper/debian-home on /home type ext4 >>> (rw,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered) >>> /dev/mapper/debian-tmp on /tmp type ext4 >>> (rw,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,stripe=4,data=ordered) >>> /dev/mapper/debian-usr on /usr type ext4 >>> (rw,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered) >>> /dev/mapper/debian-var on /var type ext4 >>> (rw,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered) >>> rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime) >>> binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc >>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) >>> >>> The problem appears to be the "Free PE 0" from some research >>> that I did online. I want to know how I can fix this issue so that I >>> can then use lvextend to increase the size of the root directory. >>> What is a recommended value for the size of this directory? I used >>> the defaults suggested by the partition manager during installation, >>> but it is clearly insufficient as seen above. Any help would be >>> appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Sumant >> >
