"LogicalExtentsNumber" is not bigger than current setting

[Tim Jaster]

I've added another PV (5GB) to a volume group that has multiple logical volumes. I was able to increase the size of one of the logical volumes by 2GB, but when attempting to add 1GB to a different lvol, I received this error instead.

Any idea what's wrong?

The outputs of pvdisplay -v and lvdisplay are attached.

Thanks,
Tim

[Tim Jaster]

I just realized that I posted the wrong lvol's lvdisplay. Please see the corrected attachment for lvol2...

Thanks,
Tim

[Mark Grant]

Looks OK to me are you sure you are remembering to add the number of LE's you are extending by to the existing number of LE's?

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Tim,

In that command the LE # should be the new *total* # of LEs. So add old to new addition for the new total.

Rgds,
Jeff

[A. Clay Stephenson]

What was the exact command you used? Note that lvextend -l 500, for example, does not increase the current size by 500 extents but rather sets the total size to 500 extents. I suspect that you used a value to indicate an increase rather than the desired total size.
In general, the -L option is easier to use.

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi Tim,

check this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=184562

Phelix explains very well that message.

Best regards,
Ettore

[Marvin Strong]

As the other have said.

if you want to add 1gb by LE you need to add 256 (per your vgdisplay) to the logical volume

lvextend -l $((1800 + 256)) /dev/vgp08/lvol2

if you wanted to do it by MB

lvextend -L $((7200 + 1024)) /dev/vgp08/lvol2

[Tim Jaster]

I figured out the problem...

I was originally using sam to extend the lvol since it also automatically extends the file system associated with it (we're using Online JFS). I then tried from the command line and found that the source of the problem was that the file system's lost+found directory had been deleted (not by me), so the fsadm command was failing. By recreating it the directory, fsadm worked fine.

Thanks for the help,
Tim