kernel: device-mapper: table: device X:X too small for target

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • lvs shows -d- attribute for missing logical volume
Raw
# lvs
  LV       VG     Attr   LSize   Devices       
  logicalv volgrp -wi-d- 250.00G /dev/sdb(0)
  • Logical Volume does not appear to exist
Raw
# ls -l /dev/volgrp/logicalv
ls: cannot access /dev/volgrp/logicalv: No such file or directory
  • device-mapper errors are present in the logs
Raw
kernel: device-mapper: table: device 8:16 too small for target
kernel: device-mapper: table: 253:7: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
  • Attempting to manually activate the logical volume results in failure
Raw
# vgchange -ay volgrp

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Logical Volume Manager 2

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