lvextend command fails with error 'Insufficient suitable contiguous allocatable extents'
Issue
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The
lvextendcommand is failing to extend lvm volume and shows below error messages:$ lvextend -L +21G /dev/mapper/vg1-lv1 Extending logical volume lv1 to 51.00 GiB Insufficient suitable contiguous allocatable extents for logical volume lv1: 672 more requiredBut the volume group
vg1is already having enough of free space (21.12g) to extend above lv:VG Attr Ext #PV #LV #SN VSize VFree VG UUID vg1 wz--n- 32.00m 1 21 0 99.78g 21.12g A123Va-12A3-EtMx-Zv5W-xRRS-dMTq-5h1111
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Logical Volume Manager 2 (LVM2)
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