On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 01:30:01AM +0200, Magnus Sandberg wrote: > > I have just installed lvm on my debian testing server. > > I have finally managed to create a PV on a maxtor > 120G disk, the 'pvcreate' command complained about > a partitiontable being present even if there is no > table there. > --8<-- > server:~# pvcreate --version > pvcreate: Logical Volume Manager 1.0.4 > Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software 02/05/2002 (IOP 10) > --8<-- > I managed to get around that by using a v2 lvm command. > Is there a bug in 1.0.x's pvcreate? Did you zero the partition table? i.e. "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/YourWholeDisk count=1 bs=512" v1 "pvcreate /dev/YourWholeDisk" should work fine then. > > I have also managed to create a VG a and a LV and that > seems to work. I have formatted the LV with ext3 and now > the strange thing is that lvscan reports: > --8<-- > server:~# lvscan > lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/vg/lg" [114.49 GB] > lvscan -- 1 logical volumes with 114.49 GB total in 1 volume group > lvscan -- 1 active logical volumes > --8<-- > But when using the filesystem df reports: > --8<-- > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hde1 123GB 121GB 2.4GB 99% /store > /dev/vg/lg 122GB 121GB 0 100% /store2 > --8<-- > > /dev/hde1 is also a 120G disk but with resierfs, ext3 > takeing up more size is probably normal. But the actual > size on the lvm is 122G and as you can see I can fit > 121G on the disk, so why is lvscan reporting ~115G? > Can i safetly use my lvm setup without running the risk > of losing data? Can't reproduce that with df 4.1 here :( That's probably just the old divide by 1k or 1024 thing. What does "df -k" say and how does it compare to the lvscan output? > > > Thanks, > > /Magnus > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
