[linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM.
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Fri Feb 8 03:20:02 UTC 2002
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 04:42:34AM +0100, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> "Chad C. Walstrom" <chewie at wookimus.net> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:33:46PM +0100, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> > > fdisk is only able to address 128GiB, that's rather obvious. if I
> > > make one partition,
> >
> > Why make a partition at all? Why not just make a physical volume out of
> > the whole disk?
>
> like I said, if I pvcreate the device itself, /dev/hdc,
> /proc/lvm/global then returns the size as 134152192KB. so it's
> still off. :/
That's just "134152192 KB / 1024 MB/KB / 1024 GB/MB = 127.937 GB"
which is close enough to 128 GB ;-)
>
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> Terje
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