From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@bmsi.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] PFree is 0 on a drive with nothing on it
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:35:06 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0911051533390.14681@bmsred.bmsi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <896EDE05-E939-4C70-9513-5805DB864BD4@gmail.com>
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Adam Mooz wrote:
> That is correct. All drives are part of 'fileshare/lv_fileshare', which only
> has 400GB of data on it at the moment; which I can see reflected in the PFREE
> columns of the PVS output. Is there an easy way to force the LVM to rescan
> it's allocation unit or would I have to remove the drives and re-insert them
> into the LVM?
Think of LVM as a kind of local SAN. LVs are "virtual disks". You allocated
a 2TB virtual disk called /dev/fileshare/lv_fileshare. Disk drives don't
know anything about filesystems that use them.
--
Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-05 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-05 7:57 [linux-lvm] PFree is 0 on a drive with nothing on it Adam Mooz
2009-11-05 15:10 ` Ray Morris
2009-11-05 15:36 ` Adam Mooz
2009-11-05 15:55 ` Ray Morris
2009-11-05 18:57 ` Adam Mooz
2009-11-05 19:16 ` Ray Morris
2009-11-05 20:49 ` Adam Mooz
2009-11-05 19:24 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2009-11-05 19:52 ` malahal
2009-11-05 20:32 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2009-11-05 20:35 ` Stuart D. Gathman [this message]
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