James Hawtin <oolon@ankh.org> writes: > On 7 Feb 2002, Terje Kvernes wrote: > > > the box currently runs vanilla 2.4.16, only patched with LVM-1.0.1 > > from 26/11. patches or anything people want to toss at this will > > be highly appreciated. we have two of these beasts from Maxtor, > > and stand to loose about 60GiB of space, which isn't all that > > neat. > > > > Whats your Extent size? 32MB. > if its the default 4MB that allows you to address 256GB in that > volume group.... Please do a vgdisplay -v --- Volume group --- VG Name stuff VG Access read/write VG Status available/resizable VG # 0 MAX LV 255 Cur LV 1 Open LV 1 MAX LV Size 1.00 TB Max PV 255 Cur PV 3 Act PV 3 VG Size 302.66 GB PE Size 32.00 MB Total PE 9685 Alloc PE / Size 3204 / 100.12 GB Free PE / Size 6481 / 202.53 GB VG UUID 9FXZZm-T2nv-dw2p-NoRj-9VeI-GVJJ-jzzbCD --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/stuff/test VG Name stuff LV Write Access read/write LV Status available LV # 1 # open 1 LV Size 100.12 GB Current LE 3204 Allocated LE 3204 Allocation next free Read ahead sectors 10000 Block device 58:0 --- Physical volumes --- PV Name (#) /dev/hdc (3) PV Status available / allocatable Total PE / Free PE 4094 / 4094 PV Name (#) /dev/hda4 (1) PV Status available / allocatable Total PE / Free PE 2784 / 0 PV Name (#) /dev/hdb4 (2) PV Status available / allocatable Total PE / Free PE 2807 / 2387 I only get 4094 extents on /dev/hdc. > You only use that disk for linux? nope. I have two other 100GB drives in the box. > do you need it to be partitioned at all? nope. > Do you want the whole of the disk to be available under LVM? yes, please. :) > You could do your pvcreate on the whole device that would get > arround partition table addressing problems. oddly enough, that doesn't seem to work either. unless 134GB is 160GiB. and unless my math is _very_ off, this seems strange. :) -- Terje _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html