-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James A. Dinkel wrote: > This is rather odd. The partition is actually 2047 GB (full size of the disk), but pvdisplay reports the PV Size as 1024.00 GB. Another oddity is if you take the PE Size and multiply it by the Total PE, then it comes out as the correct 2047 GB. It seems like something I could safely ignore, but this is going to be a critical production server and I would like to hear from more experiences persons if I should be concerned about this: > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/sde1 > VG Name vg-samba-data1 > PV Size 1024.00 GB / not usable 8192.00 EB > Allocatable yes > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > Total PE 524030 > Free PE 524030 > Allocated PE 0 > PV UUID e3ubYN-DZtL-Ee1M-yaNC-mRif-KVB6-166mVR > > Here is the version of lvm2 installed on RedHat EL 5: > > [brazen@server2 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep lvm > lvm2-2.02.16-3.el5 That's a pretty old release - the current package for RHEL 5 on RHN should be lvm2-2.02.32-4.el5. There were some display bugs fixed in older releases, so it's worth checking with the updated package. Regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkTLWEACgkQ6YSQoMYUY96ABACffOyDVYhFctdsF81u0PHwQ2Gf ouYAnR/tclgE3TKndR31yAXgnGdYYXZa =lIDN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/