From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <breeves@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] fdisk and lvs size differences
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:43:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4784CF70.3000307@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4784CDCC.6000809@wpkg.org>
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Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Let's say I have a 500GB logical volume:
>
> # lvs | grep san2_data
> san2_data san1 -wi-a- 500.00G
>
>
> fdisk will report a bigger number:
>
> # fdisk -l /dev/san1/san2_data
>
> Disk /dev/san1/san2_data: 536.8 GB, 536870912000 bytes
It's just units; the G in lvm's output signifies powers-of-two units,
wheras the GB reported by fdisk is in powers-of-ten (SI units).
See the lvm man pages for a description of the units supported (lower
case are SI, upper case are powers-of-two).
Strictly speaking, the powers-of-two versions should use the SI binary
prefixes (MiB, GiB, etc.):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
Regards,
Bryn.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-09 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-09 13:36 [linux-lvm] fdisk and lvs size differences Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-01-09 13:43 ` Bryn M. Reeves [this message]
2008-01-09 14:51 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-01-09 16:13 ` Bryn M. Reeves
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