[NTLUG:Discuss] lvm, vgextend, PV too small

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Thu Aug 19 10:08:50 CDT 2004


Robert Citek wrote:
> 
...snip...
> I now want to add /dev/hda10 back into foo using vgextend.  However, I'm 
> getting an error:
> 
>   # vgextend foo /dev/hda10
>   vgextend -- INFO: maximum logical volume size is 2 Terabyte
>   vgextend -- ERROR: physical volume "/dev/hda10" too small for physical 
> extent size of volume group "foo"

Maybe I state the obvious, but did you do a pvcreate /dev/hda10??

Tell you the truth, I've never tried to do what you did here... maybe
it doesn't work, even if LVM1.






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