On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Adam Mooz wrote: > That is correct. All drives are part of 'fileshare/lv_fileshare', which only > has 400GB of data on it at the moment; which I can see reflected in the PFREE > columns of the PVS output. Is there an easy way to force the LVM to rescan > it's allocation unit or would I have to remove the drives and re-insert them > into the LVM? Think of LVM as a kind of local SAN. LVs are "virtual disks". You allocated a 2TB virtual disk called /dev/fileshare/lv_fileshare. Disk drives don't know anything about filesystems that use them. -- Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ 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/