How to repair a Thinly provisioned logical volume in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Issue

  • How to repair a Thinly provisioned logical volume in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, if the below messages are received?

    kernel: device-mapper: thin: 253:14: unable to grow the data device until repaired
    
  • LVM thinpool data% remains 100 even after increasing the space

    # lvs -a -o +devices
    LV                   VG        Attr       LSize   Pool         Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert Devices              
    thinpool             vgname    twi-a-t--- 400.00g                     100.00 0.31                             thinpool_tdata(0) 
    [thinpool_tdata]     vgname    Twi-ao---- 400.00g                                                             /dev/sdf(393236)     
    [thinpool_tmeta]     vgname    ewi-ao----  16.00g                                                             /dev/sdf(262164)     
    thinlv               vgname    Vwi-aot--- 700.00g thinpool             57.14                                                       
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • LVM
  • Thin Logical Volume

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