[linux-lvm] 2.00 TB of PV "not usable"?

Chris Shoemaker c.shoemaker at cox.net
Thu Aug 18 01:25:29 UTC 2005


On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:31:29PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:25:37PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> > My question is: should I be concerned about the "not usable 2.00 TB" part?
> 
> Yes.
> It's probably an indication you're using an old version of the lvm tools
> that doesn't support large devices properly: upgrade!
> IIRC unpatched 2.6.9 also has data corruption issues with large devices.

Ok.  After upgrading the lvm2 tools, it now shows "not usable 0".
That makes me feel a bit better.  Thanks for the advice.

-chris

> 
> Alasdair
> -- 
> agk at redhat.com




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