From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx14.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.19]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q25NB3Sp024379 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 18:11:03 -0500 Received: from punctilious.kempt.net (punctilious.kempt.net [208.72.84.196]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q25NAxQG024665 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 18:11:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4F554719.4020801@kempt.net> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:07:05 -0500 From: "Dan B." MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1299228115.13997.37.camel@localhost> <4D7105EA.4030000@cfl.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <4D7105EA.4030000@cfl.rr.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Resizing underlying LVM partition after cloning to bigger disk Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Phillip Susi wrote: > On 3/4/2011 3:41 AM, Radu Rendec wrote: >> They do. But the "2TB" disk is actually 2000GB, which is safe (it takes >> more than 2048GB to run into trouble with m$dos partitions). > > They are actually only 2 trillion bytes, or 1862 GB. Don't abuse SI units like that. You apparently mean 1862 GiB. Daniel