<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Stuart D. Gathman <<a href="mailto:stuart@bmsi.com">stuart@bmsi.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">> # pvs > � PV�� VG�� Fmt� Attr PSize�� PFree� > � /dev/hdc1� VG_Storage00 lvm2 a-�� 74.53G�� 0 > � /dev/hdc2� VG_backup�� lvm2 a-�� 74.52G�� 0 > � /dev/hdd1� VG_Storage00 lvm2 a-�� 74.53G�� 0 > � /dev/hdd2� VG_backup�� lvm2 a-�� 74.52G�� 0 > � /dev/hdd3� VG_backup�� lvm2 a-�� 83.83G�� 0 > � /dev/sda2� VG_SYS�� lvm2 a-�� 148.95G�� 0 > � /dev/sdb1� VG_Storage�� lvm2 a-�� 465.67G�� 0 > � /dev/sdb5� VG_Storage�� lvm2 a-�� 465.67G�� 0 > � /dev/sdb6�� lvm2 --�� 465.93G 465.93G </div>There are several things I am suspicious about, but I would like to see the output of "sfdisk -l /dev/sdb". sdb1 wouldn't by any chance, be an extended partition? -- Stuart D. Gathman <<a href="mailto:stuart@bmsi.com">stuart@bmsi.com</a>> 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 <a href="mailto:linux-lvm@redhat.com">linux-lvm@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a> read the LVM HOW-TO at <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/" target="_blank">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a> </blockquote></div> Stuart, thank you for your reply. Here is the output: [root@server storage]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 60789 488287611 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 60790 182401 976848390 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 60790 121578 488287611 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 121579 182401 488560716 83 Linux [root@server storage]# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 19457 156183930 8e Linux LVM [root@server storage]# fdisk -l /dev/hdc Disk /dev/hdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 1 9729 78148161 83 Linux /dev/hdc2 9730 19457 78140160 83 Linux