lvm doen't create even more space there

[Dhananjaya Amarakoon]

Hi Friends

I have an RedHat system ( Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant) ) with a kernel 2.6.9-5.EL.

When I create a logical volume using LVM it gave some error mentioning there is no space. but there is space available. I have attached the commands output and please let me know the solution for this issue....

Dhananjaya

[Matti_Kurkela]

The messages indicate that the creation of the new LV is successful, but activating it and actually writing to the beginning of the LV fails. This might be happening because one of your PVs has a bad block.

Please check the output of the "dmesg" command and system logs. If you see any disk errors, replace the failing disk.

Also, the kernel version 2.6.9-5.EL indicates you probably have not installed *any* of the updates released after the initial release of RHEL 4. You're ignoring hundreds of known bugs (security and otherwise), even though fixes for them are already available.

MK

[Dhananjaya Amarakoon]

Hi

I have checked the dmesg for the HDD but couldn't find any error.

dmesg | grep hdc
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hdc: Maxtor 6Y080L0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: max request size: 128KiB
hdc: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: cache flushes supported

Also nothing any errors found in messages log also.

Any further suggestions for this issue ???

Dhananjaya

[Ivan Ferreira]

Your lvs output shows that LV holding an "inactive table". Maybe a sudden reboot may fix the problem.

What do you get if you do lvchange -ay /dev/VG00/dhaj

[Dhananjaya Amarakoon]

Hi

It failed . :-(

[root@mail ~]# lvchange -ay /dev/VG00/dhaj
device-mapper: resume ioctl failed: Invalid argument
Unable to resume VG00-dhaj (253:7)

I will try to reboot the server and check it back...

[Dhananjaya Amarakoon]

Hi

I rebooted the server... but still same... :-(
Any further actions ...?


Dhananjaya