Getting "Error fallocating extra space : Operation not supported" error while extending gfs2
Issue
- I am getting the error
Error fallocating extra space : Operation not supportedwhile trying to extend the gfs2 filesystem but I can see filesystem is being extended. Could you let me know that I can ignore this message?
[root@system ~]# gfs2_tool df /dev/mapper/logvg-d92
/db/dom/qa/d92:
SB lock proto = "lock_dlm"
SB lock table = "dom_db01:d92"
SB ondisk format = 1801
SB multihost format = 1900
Block size = 4096
Journals = 4
Resource Groups = 20
Mounted lock proto = "lock_dlm"
Mounted lock table = "dom_db01:d92"
Mounted host data = "jid=0:id=1900545:first=1"
Journal number = 0
Lock module flags = 0
Local flocks = FALSE
Local caching = FALSE
Type Total Blocks Used Blocks Free Blocks use%
------------------------------------------------------------------------
data 1310564 1188280 122284 91%
inodes 122315 31 122284 0%
[root@system ~]#
[root@system ~]# lvextend -L +1G /dev/logvg/d92
Extending logical volume d92 to 6.00 GB
Logical volume d92 successfully resized
[root@system ~]#
[root@system ~]# gfs2_grow -T /db/dom/qa/d92
(Test mode--File system will not be changed)
FS: Mount Point: /db/dom/qa/d92
FS: Device: /dev/mapper/logvg-d92
FS: Size: 1310718 (0x13fffe)
FS: RG size: 65535 (0xffff)
DEV: Size: 1572864 (0x180000)
The file system grew by 1024MB.
gfs2_grow complete.
[root@system ~]# gfs2_grow /db/dom/qa/d92
FS: Mount Point: /db/dom/qa/d92
FS: Device: /dev/mapper/logvg-d92
FS: Size: 1310718 (0x13fffe)
FS: RG size: 65535 (0xffff)
DEV: Size: 1572864 (0x180000)
The file system grew by 1024MB.
Error fallocating extra space : Operation not supported
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the Resilient Storage Add Ons)
- Red Hat High Availability Cluster with 2 or more nodes
- GFS2 filesystem that needs to be grown in size with
gfs2_grow. - Kernel must be prior to kernel-2.6.18-308.el5.
- gfs2-utils package must be gfs2-utils-0.1.62-31.el5 or later.
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