[linux-lvm] Fw: Logical volume is smaller than physical drive.

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

Julio,

please provide the output of "vgdisplay -v vg" to better understand
what's happening before and after adding /dev/md1.

On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:22:27AM -0300, Julio wrote:
> I have a  16G Raid 1 ( 2 scsi drives ) . 
> I added it to a vg called vg ( vgcreate vg /dev/md1 ) and then tried to create a logical volume of 16G. ( lvcreate -L16G -nmy_volume vg).
> It failed and said that there was no space avaliable.
> 'vgdisplay vg'  showed that i had only 10G avaliable. where are my other 6G ;) ??
> Have any of you been thru something similer ?
> 
> Thanx !
> 
> Julio Faerman
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