From: Gijs <info@bsnw.nl>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM pretends it has more space than it actually has
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:40:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E777EA4.7000801@bsnw.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1109182015050.13864@bmsred.bmsi.com>
Thanks for the reply, however I don't think the size of the blockdev
command is incorrect. At least not on my machine. I had already checked
that earlier and it looked fine.
On 19-9-2011 2:21, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> This may not be related, but I had a problem with blockdev --getsize
> in Fedora
> 14 returning the wrong size for an IDE drive on a USB-IDE/SATA
> adapter. It
> returned the correct size for SATA drives on the USB adapter, and for IDE
> drives connected to the internal IDE port. So I chalked this up to
> wierdness
> on the (nearly obsolete) USB/IDE interface. But your problem suddenly
> made me
> not so sure.
>
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Gijs wrote:
>
>> Now I wonder why LVM wants to pretend it has more space than it
>> actually has. Because when I subtract those sectors from each other,
>> and I calculate how much bytes are in those "pretended sectors", it
>> turns out that that's the exact amount that is missing (1MB).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-18 13:58 [linux-lvm] LVM pretends it has more space than it actually has Gijs
2011-09-19 0:21 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-09-19 17:40 ` Gijs [this message]
2011-09-19 1:13 ` adultsitesoftware@gmail.com
2011-09-19 1:23 ` adultsitesoftware@gmail.com
2011-09-19 17:37 ` Gijs
2011-09-19 18:48 ` Ray Morris
2011-09-19 19:48 ` Gijs
2011-09-19 20:41 ` Ray Morris
2011-09-21 18:32 ` Gijs
2011-10-12 20:43 ` Gijs
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