On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:45:50PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:18:07PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:37, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I recently completed a migration of my home fileserver form LVM on two > > > ide disks to LVM on RAID-5 with 4 ide disks. I attempted to extend one > > > of the logical volumes, but it failed with this message: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo lvextend -L+25G /dev/mommadisk/video > > > Password: > > > Using stripesize of last segment 4.00 KB > > > Extending logical volume video to 200.00 GB > > > Not enough PVs with free space available for parallel allocation. > > > Consider --alloc anywhere if desperate. > > > > "lvextend --stripes=1 ... " often works in such situations. > > > > that's got it. thanks!
and to follow up, that does have it so now htat particular lv shows three stripes. What was the cause of the problem when extending it? It had two stripes, does it try to extend those two stripes in parallel? guess I need to read the docs more on this striping thing. A
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