> 2) I also tried adding the drive to the existing volume group (VolGroup00) > and created a new logical volume group (LogVol02) for the drive. But again, > the file browser shows different amounts of free space at root (31GB) vs > after the mount point of the new drive (/mnt/X2nd40GB) (35 GB). Why does it > not show 66 GB free no matter what folder I look at? Free space, from the filesystem perspective, is based on how big the underlying partition is. In this case you've created two "partitions" ( "/" and "/mnt/X2nd40GB") and now the free space is being reported based on which partition the folder you're looking at resides in. As an example, if I create a "partitioning" scheme in LVM (VolGroup01) that mounts logical volumes at the following directories: / - 8GB/3GB free [LogVolRoot] /home - 20GB/15GB free [LogVolHome] /var - 5GB/1GB free [LogVolVar] If I'm sitting in /home/andrew/mystuff the filesystem (LogVolHome) will report I have say 15GB free. If I then move over to /var/www and do the same there, I may only get 1GB reported free. This is because free space is calculated based on which Logical Volume/filesystem I'm sitting in at the time. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie _______________________________________________ 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/
