Volume group "pve" has insufficient free space

[nchh13]

Hi Everyone,

I had to turn of my PVE last night to prepare for the coming cyclone. When I turned on my "server" this morning, the VMs and containers couldn't start, got this error

TASK ERROR: activating LV 'pve/data' failed: Activation of logical volume pve/data is prohibited while logical volume pve/data_tmeta is active.

I got this error before, so I ran these 3 commands again (like how I was able to fix the same issue several times before)

# lvchange -an pve/data

# lvconvert --repair pve/data

# lvchange -ay pve/data

But for the # lvconvert --repair pve/data, I got this error this time

Volume group "pve" has insufficient free space (2021 extents): 2075 required.

and for the third command, I got this

Activation of logical volume pve/data is prohibited while logical volume pve/data_tmeta is active.

Please show me how to fix it. Many thanks!

 

[nchh13]

I think I fixed the issue after doing some research myself (sorry, I was panic this morning)

I found that the main problem is my LVM is full (99%), so I tried to delete some old VMs and snapshots, couldn't do so anyway, errored "activating LV 'pve/data' failed: Activation of logical volume pve/data is prohibited while logical volume pve/data_tmeta is active. (500)"

So I googled that error and ran these commands to "deactivate pve/data_tdata and pve/data_tmeta to be able to activate pve/data"

Reference: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/t...e-pve-data_tdata-is-active.106225/post-457983