Problem Executing "lvcreate" Command

Linux and Unix-Like Fedora
1

Hi everyone, I use Fedora 17.

I used gparted to created a dev/sdb2 partition. I then used vgextend to extend the volume group. The output of vgdisplay shows the condition of my volume group:

--- Volume group ---
  VG Name               vg_data
  System ID             
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        2
  Metadata Sequence No  86
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                1
  Open LV               1
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                2
  Act PV                2
  VG Size               297.59 GiB
  PE Size               32.00 MiB
  Total PE              9523
  Alloc PE / Size       6249 / 195.28 GiB
  Free  PE / Size       3274 / 102.31 GiB
  VG UUID               AR8t1M-VnYV-TIFC-tCzi-ZeO6-gFUd-SZo2Kw

Clearly there is enough free space for me to create additional logical volumes.
I want to make a new one called lv_windows7.
When I execute this command, I get the following


 [root@speed-daemon ~]# lvcreate -L 99G -n lv_windows7 vg_data
  device-mapper: resume ioctl on  failed: Invalid argument
  Unable to resume vg_data-lv_windows7 (253:4)
  Failed to activate new LV.
  Attempted to decrement suspended device counter below zero.

This is quite odd. And when I look up in the logs I see:

Sep 30 12:34:41 speed-daemon kernel: [ 1216.060250] device-mapper: table: 253:4: sdb1 too small for target: start=409536512, len=2883584, dev_size=409600000

For some odd reason, the kernel is not realizing that it should put the new space on /dev/sdb2. I installed system-config-lvm and it shows me that the volume group consists of /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2. I can cheat and use this utility to make the new lvm but I works as a systems administrator so I like to learn via command line. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

2

Can you post output of:

pvs
vgs
lvs
3 
[root@speed-daemon ~]# pvs
  PV         VG      Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree 
  /dev/sda2  vg_os   lvm2 a--   29.28g     0 
  /dev/sda3  vg_os   lvm2 a--    9.75g     0 
  /dev/sdb1  vg_data lvm2 a--  199.97g  4.69g
  /dev/sdb2  vg_data lvm2 a--   97.62g 97.62g
[root@speed-daemon ~]# vgs
  VG      #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize   VFree  
  vg_data   2   1   0 wz--n- 297.59g 102.31g
  vg_os     2   3   0 wz--n-  39.03g      0 
[root@speed-daemon ~]# lvs
  LV      VG      Attr     LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Move Log Copy%  Convert
  lv00    vg_data -wi-ao-- 195.28g                                           
  lv_home vg_os   -wi-ao--  19.25g                                           
  lv_root vg_os   -wi-ao--  10.00g                                           
  lv_swap vg_os   -wi-ao--   9.78g                                           
[root@mohit-speed-daemon ~]#