How-To: Fix LVM2’s No Extents Available for Allocation errors when using pvmove . Originally posted 2009-11-01. I just started using LVM2 about two weeks ago. I recently wanted to shuffle around some physical extents on my disks to keep them from becoming a mess as I added new logical volumes. … The command I used runs pvmove in the …
8/25/2007 · pvmove: No extents available for allocation Package: lvm2 ; Maintainer for lvm2 is Debian LVM Team ; Source for lvm2 is src:lvm2 ( PTS , buildd , popcon ). Reported by: Marc Lehmann, pvmove : not enough free physical extents available hi, We have to modify a volume group. In order to do this we have to free up PE 0. … Allocation strict IO Timeout (Seconds) default — Distribution of logical volume — … So pvmove will move extent 0 to a free extent on the same PV. However, it looks like I don’t have any free extents . …
pvmove moves the allocated physical extents (PEs) on a source PV to one or more destination PVs. You can optionally specify a source LV in which case only extents used by that LV will be moved to free (or specified) extents on the destination PV. If no destination PV is specified, the normal allocation rules for the VG are used.
[y/n] y pvmove — not enough free/allocatable physical extents Than I used pvscan to check pv and see, there are no extends allocatable (on each partition 0 free). How is that possible? df tells me, there enough space available .
7/7/2012 · No extents available for allocation df shows the logical volume has 1.2T available so I would think I should be able to evacuate sdb1: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on … Run pvmove to move stuff off of the disk you want to remove (there should be space now).
Trying # pvmove /dev/sda errors No extents available for allocation which (if I understand correctly) makes sense as there are no free physical extents on the only other physical volume to which to move it.
No extents available for allocation df shows the logical volume has 1.2T available so I would think I should be able to evacuate sdb1: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on … Run pvmove to move stuff off of the disk you want to remove (there should be space now).
