On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:51:25AM +0200, Michael Frotscher wrote: > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 11:25, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > > > that could be either some regular access to extents residing on hdb > > So you are saying that the volume can be used (like accessing hdb) even > though hdc is spun down? Correct. If there's just accesses to extents mapped onto hdb (i.e. from the filesystem), hdc will never spin up (unless somthing outside LVM triggers it ;-) > But if, it is a good explanation as my volume still has plenty of space > so hdc would not be accessed until hdb is full. See "pvdisplay -v /dev/hd[bc]" or "lvdisplay -v YourLV" for your logical volume(s) to see what is mapped onto what. > -- > Cheers, > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/