volume not extending through vxassist and vxresize

[vaibhav_gaur]

Hi,

Curious to know why my volume whos underlying disk is 8GB and the volume being 4gb is not being extended by vxassit and vxresize.

Thanks

[Ilya_Voronin]

How about additional information? vxprint output, etc.

[Sundar_Rajan]

any error message from vxassist ?
run vxassist with "override option"

[Angelo_Daniele_]

Hi,

I need additional information to understand the problem (ex. volume layout, disk space, sintax of "vxresize or vxassist command)

A.

[paul_johnston]

too bad we didn't have the output from "vxprint -g DGNAME -hftr"

but anyways -for the rest - the reason why you can't expand a volume to a required capacity is usually due to:
1/ volume layout (if the volume is striped or mirrored or RAID-5 or RAID 0+1 or RAID 1+0) You have to maintain separate disks for columns/plexes as you should expect.

2/ you're too greedy by a sector (or more likely cylinder) - try expanding capacity by a smaller value.

3/ fsadm and vxresize a full file system will fail because it needs more room meta-data-wise for File System management (mapping out more space) - free up some free space &/or grow the filesystem in smaller increments (instead of jumping straight from 4GB to 8GB, go to 5GB then 8GB).

hth
paul