file too large when creating a VG

[Deepak Seth_1]

i have 2 luns of 200 and 67 gb each . i get this error when i trying to create a vg using a 200 Gb lun .

gcreate /dev/vgtest /dev/dsk/c16t0d0
Increased the number of physical extents per physical volume to 51199.
vgcreate: Volume group "/dev/vgtest" could not be created:
File too large

i tried rebooting , changing the minor number etc .

no good so far . do i am missing some LVM patch . System has a patch level of march,2001 and running hpux 11.0

[Calandrello · Accepted solution]

Friend
this this happening which had to the size of the PE that for standard and 4 he tries to use: vgcreate - s 16 /dev/vgtest /dev/dsk/c16t0d0 this must decide its problem

[Deepak Seth_1]

thanks man. perfect . resolved the issue .

[Sandman!]

Don't need any patch, just increasing the PE size from the default of 4M will work. The max PE size can be 256M. The reason is that the LVM data structures must fit into a single extent on the disk. So if you choose a PE size of 32M then the num of physical extents of size 32M will be 6400 for a total LUN size of 200G.

~hope it helps