That's a GREAT question. The really weird thing is that the RAID array in question *does* actually have 3.2 TB of free space in it! (5 x 750GB SATA in RAID 5 array). I am completely baffled. ~# blockdev --report RO RA SSZ BSZ StartSec Size Device rw 256 512 4096 0 409599360 /dev/cciss/c0d0 rw 256 512 512 63 409593177 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 rw 256 512 4096 0 6915815280 /dev/cciss/c0d1 rw 256 512 1024 63 497952 /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 rw 256 512 4096 498015 7807590 /dev/cciss/c0d1p2 rw 256 512 1024 8305605 2 /dev/cciss/c0d1p3 rw 256 512 512 8305668 2612532821 /dev/cciss/c0d1p5 rw 256 512 4096 0 409591808 /dev/dm-0
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Alasdair G Kergon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:23:36PM -0500, teh test3s wrote: > > PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree DevSize PV UUID > > /dev/cciss/c0d1p5 volgroup00 lvm2 a- 3.22T 2.22T 1.22T > > wF9oyR-R0tf-bZeW-0es1-FhYK-f2g3-xS1Rd9 > > So that's what you need to explain: > > How come LVM thinks that device is 3.22T while it's really only 1.22T ? > > Presumably blockdev --getsize will tell you the same. > > IOW It's not an LVM issue. Check your cciss partitioning. > > Alasdair > -- > [email protected] >
