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From: "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" <Mauelshagen@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Lost harddrive space
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:02:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010424180249.K31988@sistina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from erik@rigtorp.com on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:19:34PM +0200

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:19:34PM +0200, Erik Rigtorp wrote:
> My harddrive is 61.4GB i think. I think LVM is great software, it should 
> be standard in all ditributions.
> 
> /Erik
> 
> #fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7476 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1        61    489951   83  Linux
> /dev/hda2            62      7476  59560987+  8e  Unknown

59560987 / 1024 / 1024 == 56.8.

No lost space whatshowever.

> 
> 
> #pvdisplay /dev/hda2
> 
> --- Physical volume ---
> PV Name               /dev/hda2
> VG Name               erkki
> PV Size               56.8 GB / NOT usable 1.03 MB [LVM: 177 KB]
> PV#                   1
> PV Status             available
> Allocatable           yes
> Cur LV                3
> PE Size (KByte)       4096
> Total PE              14541
> Free PE               12237
> Allocated PE          2304
> PV UUID               IUz7yE-MP2i-QwJ2-23GW-70cu-P2Fw-7Jn0xA
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" <Mauelshagen@sistina.com>
> To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:28:56 +0000
> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Lost harddrive space
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Erik Rigtorp wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I have a 60999.46 MB linux lvm partition. But when I pvcreate it and 
> > > pvdisplay /dev/hda2 it says the physical volume is only 56.8GB and
> > 1.03MB 
> > > not used. Where are those lost Gigs? I use the lvm that comes with
> > the 
> > > 2.4.3 kernel.
> > 
> > Could you provide "pvdisplay /dev/hda2" and "fdisk -l /dev/hda" please?
> > 
> > It is likely caused by the math:
> > 
> >  1 GB = 2^30 Byte
> > 
> > > 
> > > /Erik
> > > 
> > > 
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> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --
> > 
> > *** Software bugs are stupid.
> >     Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them ***
> > 
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> > -=-=-=-
> > 
> > Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Sistina Software Inc.
> > Senior Consultant/Developer                       Am Sonnenhang 11
> >                                                   56242 Marienrachdorf
> >                                                   Germany
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> >                                                        FAX 924446
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-- 

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

*** Software bugs are stupid.
    Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them ***

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Sistina Software Inc.
Senior Consultant/Developer                       Am Sonnenhang 11
                                                  56242 Marienrachdorf
                                                  Germany
Mauelshagen@Sistina.com                           +49 2626 141200
                                                       FAX 924446
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-24 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <no.id>
2001-04-12 18:28 ` [linux-lvm] Lost harddrive space Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-04-24 18:02 ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen [this message]
2001-08-20 10:57 ` [linux-lvm] LVM on Redhat 7.1 Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2001-08-20 14:17   ` Keith Hopkins
2001-08-20 14:34   ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2001-08-20 15:07     ` Joe Thornber
     [not found] <200104121823.UAA21356@mailserver2.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
2020-11-27 16:17 ` [linux-lvm] Lost harddrive space Holger Grothe
     [not found] <200104121553.IAA30370@nebulus.tfb.com>
2001-04-12 17:24 ` Jamey Kirby

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