[linux-lvm] Lost harddrive space

[Erik Rigtorp]

My harddrive is 61.4GB i think. I think LVM is great software, it should 
be standard in all ditributions.

/Erik

#fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1        61    489951   83  Linux
/dev/hda2            62      7476  59560987+  8e  Unknown


#pvdisplay /dev/hda2

--- Physical volume ---
PV Name               /dev/hda2
VG Name               erkki
PV Size               56.8 GB / NOT usable 1.03 MB [LVM: 177 KB]
PV#                   1
PV Status             available
Allocatable           yes
Cur LV                3
PE Size (KByte)       4096
Total PE              14541
Free PE               12237
Allocated PE          2304
PV UUID               IUz7yE-MP2i-QwJ2-23GW-70cu-P2Fw-7Jn0xA



-----Original Message-----
From: "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" <Mauelshagen at sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm at sistina.com
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:28:56 +0000
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Lost harddrive space

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Erik Rigtorp wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have a 60999.46 MB linux lvm partition. But when I pvcreate it and 
> > pvdisplay /dev/hda2 it says the physical volume is only 56.8GB and
> 1.03MB 
> > not used. Where are those lost Gigs? I use the lvm that comes with
> the 
> > 2.4.3 kernel.
> 
> Could you provide "pvdisplay /dev/hda2" and "fdisk -l /dev/hda" please?
> 
> It is likely caused by the math:
> 
>  1 GB = 2^30 Byte
> 
> > 
> > /Erik
> > 
> > 
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