FW: [linux-lvm] Help with LVM reconstruction

[Marek Podmaka]

Hello,

Sunday, October 5, 2008, 22:47:50, Robin Thompson wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> Problem is that I don't  - the card will only refer to it in 2gb -
> but it could be actually 2tb as in 2 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 x1024 bytes.
>  
> I can extract this: 
> physical_volumes {
> pv0 {
> id = "QADZl1-asMf-PyLf-EIw1-qLkv-ZbFI-2goQUD"
> device = "/dev/sdb1"
> status = ["ALLOCATABLE"]
> pe_start = 384
> pe_count = 524286

That should be enough information... But it looks like 4 TB...

PE size is 8 MB and you have 524286 PEs (Physical Extents). That's
3.99 TB (actually it's 4 TB without 16 MB - two PEs, maybe the PV
header is located there - I don't remember the exact LVM structure
on disk).

-- 
  bYE, Marki