Hi All I am unable to extend the logical volume?

[Sudhaadm]

Thanks in advance.

I am unable to allocate space in lv.Is allocation=Stricct option causing the problem.If that is the problem how can i proceed to extend LV>
--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name /dev/vg01_apps/lvbilink
VG Name /dev/vg01_apps
LV Permission read/write
LV Status available/syncd
Mirror copies 0
Consistency Recovery MWC
Schedule parallel
LV Size (Mbytes) 81500
Current LE 20375
Allocated PE 20375
Stripes 0
Stripe Size (Kbytes) 0
Bad block NONE
Allocation strict
IO Timeout (Seconds) default

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
if your PE size is 4Mb then you have allocated and used all your space (20375 * 4 = 81500Mb).
If you want to extend the LV do you have space available in the VG to allocate?

[Sudhaadm]

I have available space in VG.
Please check it and give the syntax to extend the LV?
--- Volume groups ---
VG Name /dev/vg01_apps
VG Write Access read/write
VG Status available
Max LV 255
Cur LV 4
Open LV 4
Max PV 16
Cur PV 6
Act PV 6
Max PE per PV 8631
VGDA 12
PE Size (Mbytes) 4
Total PE 32361
Alloc PE 32314
Free PE 47
Total PVG 0
Total Spare PVs 0
Total Spare PVs in use 0

[TommyT]

Hi.
As Peter said you don't have any free disk space.
Free PE is 47...
PE size 4meg
total free space on disk = 4 * 47 = 188 meg

regards
/T

[Senthil Kumar .A_1]

Hi Sudhaadm,

How much are you trying to increase.
you can't increase the space more than 188MB, unless you add a new disk to ur VG.

Please provide us the command syntax you tried to use in this thread so that we can confirm you why you received the error. Also paste the error message exactly over here.

Regards,
Senthil.

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

Strict isn't the problem - only if it was strict/contiguous...

As others have stated - you need to add another disk to the volume group - or only extend by 188 MB...

Example, you could increase /dev/vg01_apps/lvbilink like so:

lvextend -L 81688 /dev/vg01_apps/lvbilink
fsadm -b 81688M /yourmountpointforthelvol

Course, that is if you have online jfs...

Otherwise, you have to un mount, and use extendfs....

Rgds...Geoff

[AshishJain_USA]

U can always do an lvextend on the specified lvol and increase the size by an additional 188MB ( 47*4). However, if u don't have online JFS, u will have to unmount the filesystem and then run extendfs.

rgds...Ashish

[Sudhaadm]

Hi all,
Thanks for the great support.