On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 15:12 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 02/09/2010 11:50, Linda Walsh wrote:
I am running low on space in my /backups partition. I looked at the partitions and volumes to see what might be done (besides deleting old backups), and noticed: pvs: PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sdb1 Backups lvm2 a- 10.91T 3.15G --- So I thought 'cool', I didn't make it the full size, and I have some left...ok...(I didn't remember what I'd done, its been a while). Run lvresize: lvresize /dev/Backups/Backups -L +3.15G Rounding up size to full physical extent 3.15 GB Extending logical volume Backups to 10.91 TB Logical volume Backups successfully resized I suggest that you look at how the KBs are counted by the manufacturer and then the OS. If I recall correctly, HD mfgrers use something like ~1458 bytes (or something) = 1Kb.
He's talking about PVs and LVs in LVM, so whatever the manufacturer does
is not relevant
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Adam Tauno Williams