On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:16:40PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:16:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Also have a look at the physical device the pv lives on. Do the device > > size and the pv data about it's size match? > > This isn't a size problem, in that case lvresize reports something like > "insufficient extants". I wouldn't be surprised if this is a hardware > fault, have you run smartctl on the drive? > Thanks Neil, but I'm unfamiliar with this tool. What I've got so far is:
mockingbird ~ # smartctl /dev/sda -i smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 Serial Number: GEA530RE2YB3LE Firmware Version: GM4OA5FA User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Local Time is: Tue Jan 13 17:19:42 2009 MST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled What options should I try? Thanks, festus
