On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: > On Friday, February 25, 2011 08:15:34 am Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> [root at francois-pc ~]# lvcreate -L 500gig -n 500G freenas >> Insufficient free extents (127999) in volume group freenas: 128000 required > >> How do I actually create a 500GB volume? > > try > lvcreate -l 127999 -n 500G freenas > > The default '500G' size is 12,800 extents, but you only have 12,799 extents free; which gets rounded *up* to 500G by the free space display. And that's a lower-case 'L' option, not an upper-case 'I' option. > _______________________________________________ Cool, thanx for the explanation. Why is there one extend "missing", or no usable? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532