CentOS - Jun 2011 - increase harddisk diskspace Failed to suspend LogVol00

Hi,

I want to increase my harddisk space and receive the following error

 

# lvextend -l +323 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

  Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 48.97 GB

  device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument

  Failed to suspend LogVol00

 

Can you help me please?

 

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 54.7 GB, 54759997440 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6657 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/hda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux

/dev/hda2              14        5221    41833260   8e  Linux LVM

 

#pvdisplay

  --- Physical volume ---

  PV Name               /dev/hda2

  VG Name               VolGroup00

  PV Size               50.00 GB / not usable 31.81 MB

  Allocatable           yes

  PE Size (KByte)       32768

  Total PE              1599

  Free PE               323

  Allocated PE          1276

  PV UUID               OcT323-L3sk-r2dX-2qlC-lNuL-slEj-gJF0Ql

 

# vgdisplay

  --- Volume group ---

  VG Name               VolGroup00

  System ID

  Format                lvm2

  Metadata Areas        1

  Metadata Sequence No  8

  VG Access             read/write

  VG Status             resizable

  MAX LV                0

  Cur LV                2

  Open LV               2

  Max PV                0

  Cur PV                1

  Act PV                1

  VG Size               49.97 GB

  PE Size               32.00 MB

  Total PE              1599

  Alloc PE / Size       1276 / 39.88 GB

 Free  PE / Size       323 / 10.09 GB

  VG UUID               AeMGtt-Ieic-q0JQ-91LC-38Am-HCD5-sO4tle

 

 

# lvdisplay

  --- Logical volume ---

  LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

  VG Name                VolGroup00

  LV UUID                FC0PHC-NNNS-ZRTB-HVCx-gGKg-f3vk-5qzbn1

  LV Write Access        read/write

  LV Status              available

  # open                 1

  LV Size                38.88 GB

  Current LE             1244

  Segments               1

  Allocation             inherit

  Read ahead sectors     auto

  - currently set to     256

  Block device           253:0

 

  --- Logical volume ---

  LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01

  VG Name                VolGroup00

  LV UUID                cnhEpj-deSS-3nPr-lVfE-mzZ4-4dLH-tTqzQR

  LV Write Access        read/write

  LV Status              available

  # open                 1

  LV Size                1.00 GB

  Current LE             32

  Segments               1

  Allocation             inherit

  Read ahead sectors     auto

  - currently set to     256

  Block device           253:1

 

 

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On 6/2/2011 1:13 PM, Manu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to increase my harddisk space and receive the following error
>
> # lvextend -l +323 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>
>   Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 48.97 GB
>
>   device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
>
>   Failed to suspend LogVol00
>
>
Try:
lvextend -L +10G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

upper case L

Looks like you have 10.09GB free.


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Have you also unmounted the filesystem on LogVol00?


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Drew

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