Actually df is telling you the space available within the Filesystem while pvscan is telling you the space available on the logical volume. Try df -H and see if it matches your pvscan, the capital "H" tells df to use powers of 1000 instead of 1024. On 1/19/06, Chris bolton <cbolton@rarr.org.uk> wrote: > nevermind got it sussed, lvm is using 10^9 for a gigabyte while df is > using 1024^3 > > well it would appear that way anyway. > > Hi, > > > > just added a new PV to my VG but to me there seems to be an > > inconsistency between what lvm says is the disk space and what df says. > > > > pvscan > > PV /dev/sda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [68.38 GB / 0 free] > > PV /dev/sdb VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [68.50 GB / 0 free] > > PV /dev/hdc2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [37.12 GB / 0 free] > > PV /dev/hdb1 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [37.22 GB / 0 free] > > PV /dev/hdd1 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [37.22 GB / 0 free] > > PV /dev/hde1 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [37.25 GB / 0 free] > > Total: 6 [285.69 GB] / in use: 6 [285.69 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] > > > > df -h > > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 265G 227G 28G 90% / > > > > I tried resizing the filesystem but it just says this.. > > > > ext2online /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > > ext2online v1.1.18 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b > > ext2online: ext2_ioctl: No space left on device > > > > ext2online: unable to resize /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > > > > Am I missing something obvious here? or have I ballsed it up along the > > way? > > > > Cheers, > > Chris. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-lvm mailing list > > linux-lvm@redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/