Thanks, Adam. Appreciate the help. Betsie Spann VM Systems Programmer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Thornton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:32 AM Subject: Re: fdasd never ends
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:24:33AM -0800, Betsie Spann wrote: > > > I found a Linux guest at 2.4.7-31, May 21, 2002. I was able to dasdfmt and > > fdasd 151 mod 9's after running mknod on the dasdaa - dasdex vols. I > > created a logical volume group and am attempting to create a 1TB logical > > volume. Now I'm up against "mazimum VGDA kernel size of 268427264". Trying > > to figure this one out. > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lvm2.html > > Basically, make your extents bigger. 4M extents give you a maximum size > of 256G. So you need at least 16M extents for a 1T filesystem. > > Create your volume groups with > > vgcreate -s 16M name /dev/dasdXY > > (Or give yourself room to grow and vgcreate -s 32M) > > Adam >
