New subject: increase harddisk diskspace Failed to suspend LogVol00

2 Jun 2011


      Hi,
I want to increase my harddisk space and receive the following error
# lvextend -l +323 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 48.97 GB
device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
Failed to suspend LogVol00
Can you help me please?
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 54.7 GB, 54759997440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6657 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2              14        5221    41833260   8e  Linux LVM
#pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name               /dev/hda2
VG Name               VolGroup00
PV Size               50.00 GB / not usable 31.81 MB
Allocatable           yes
PE Size (KByte)       32768
Total PE              1599
Free PE               323
Allocated PE          1276
PV UUID               OcT323-L3sk-r2dX-2qlC-lNuL-slEj-gJF0Ql
# vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name               VolGroup00
System ID
Format                lvm2
Metadata Areas        1
Metadata Sequence No  8
VG Access             read/write
VG Status             resizable
MAX LV                0
Cur LV                2
Open LV               2
Max PV                0
Cur PV                1
Act PV                1
VG Size               49.97 GB
PE Size               32.00 MB
Total PE              1599
Alloc PE / Size       1276 / 39.88 GB
Free  PE / Size       323 / 10.09 GB
VG UUID               AeMGtt-Ieic-q0JQ-91LC-38Am-HCD5-sO4tle
# lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
VG Name                VolGroup00
LV UUID                FC0PHC-NNNS-ZRTB-HVCx-gGKg-f3vk-5qzbn1
LV Write Access        read/write
LV Status              available
# open                 1
LV Size                38.88 GB
Current LE             1244
Segments               1
Allocation             inherit
Read ahead sectors     auto
- currently set to     256
Block device           253:0
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
VG Name                VolGroup00
LV UUID                cnhEpj-deSS-3nPr-lVfE-mzZ4-4dLH-tTqzQR
LV Write Access        read/write
LV Status              available
# open                 1
LV Size                1.00 GB
Current LE             32
Segments               1
Allocation             inherit
Read ahead sectors     auto
- currently set to     256
Block device           253:1