[linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM.
Terje Kvernes
terjekv at math.uio.no
Thu Feb 7 21:48:02 UTC 2002
James Hawtin <oolon at ankh.org> writes:
> On 7 Feb 2002, Terje Kvernes wrote:
>
> > the box currently runs vanilla 2.4.16, only patched with LVM-1.0.1
> > from 26/11. patches or anything people want to toss at this will
> > be highly appreciated. we have two of these beasts from Maxtor,
> > and stand to loose about 60GiB of space, which isn't all that
> > neat.
> >
>
> Whats your Extent size?
32MB.
> if its the default 4MB that allows you to address 256GB in that
> volume group.... Please do a vgdisplay -v
--- Volume group ---
VG Name stuff
VG Access read/write
VG Status available/resizable
VG # 0
MAX LV 255
Cur LV 1
Open LV 1
MAX LV Size 1.00 TB
Max PV 255
Cur PV 3
Act PV 3
VG Size 302.66 GB
PE Size 32.00 MB
Total PE 9685
Alloc PE / Size 3204 / 100.12 GB
Free PE / Size 6481 / 202.53 GB
VG UUID 9FXZZm-T2nv-dw2p-NoRj-9VeI-GVJJ-jzzbCD
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/stuff/test
VG Name stuff
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
LV # 1
# open 1
LV Size 100.12 GB
Current LE 3204
Allocated LE 3204
Allocation next free
Read ahead sectors 10000
Block device 58:0
--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name (#) /dev/hdc (3)
PV Status available / allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 4094 / 4094
PV Name (#) /dev/hda4 (1)
PV Status available / allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 2784 / 0
PV Name (#) /dev/hdb4 (2)
PV Status available / allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 2807 / 2387
I only get 4094 extents on /dev/hdc.
> You only use that disk for linux?
nope. I have two other 100GB drives in the box.
> do you need it to be partitioned at all?
nope.
> Do you want the whole of the disk to be available under LVM?
yes, please. :)
> You could do your pvcreate on the whole device that would get
> arround partition table addressing problems.
oddly enough, that doesn't seem to work either. unless 134GB is
160GiB. and unless my math is _very_ off, this seems strange. :)
--
Terje
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