Hello, I guess that you are write. I forgot that point. I repartitioned again, I did not get the message and pvscan gave me the right size. The only active partition was probably a swap partition that I finally desactived. Thank. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre@xxxxxxx Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France =========================================================================== > Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 at 5:03 PM > From: "Roberto Ragusa" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: pvcreate > > On 03/08/2015 12:09 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Using fdisk I create a partition of 59Go (/dev/sdxy) > > Then I do a pvcreate /dev/sdxy) > > pvdisplay says: > > /dev/sdb7" is a new physical volume of "38.00 GiB" > > > > This probably results from a previous partitioning. > > Maybe you just repartitioned and missed the fdisk message > about the fact that the new partition table will be > active at next reboot. It happens if some other partitions > on the disk are in use. > In that case 38GiB is the size of the old /dev/sdb7. > Be careful. > > Use "cat /proc/partitions" to display how the disk is seen > by the system in this moment. > > -- > Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
