[linux-lvm] PFree is 0 on a drive with nothing on it

[Adam Mooz]

Here it is for both SDA and SDB:

#pvdisplay -m /dev/mapper/cryptsda
File descriptor 4 left open
   --- Physical volume ---
   PV Name               /dev/mapper/cryptsda
   VG Name               fileshare
   PV Size               931.04 GB / not usable 3.87 MB
   Allocatable           yes (but full)
   PE Size (KByte)       4096
   Total PE              238344
   Free PE               0
   Allocated PE          238344
   PV UUID               6OfRxC-R59i-CVjX-igtB-pg4e-2qAw-OdiPSc

   --- Physical Segments ---
   Physical extent 0 to 238343:
     Logical volume	/dev/fileshare/lv_fileshare
     Logical extents	0 to 238343

#pvdisplay -m /dev/mapper/cryptsdb
File descriptor 4 left open
   --- Physical volume ---
   PV Name               /dev/mapper/cryptsdb
   VG Name               fileshare
   PV Size               931.04 GB / not usable 3.87 MB
   Allocatable           yes (but full)
   PE Size (KByte)       4096
   Total PE              238344
   Free PE               0
   Allocated PE          238344
   PV UUID               zCLder-PF5b-fQpy-RdMS-Ayc0-caWh-LA2Esm

   --- Physical Segments ---
   Physical extent 0 to 238343:
     Logical volume	/dev/fileshare/lv_fileshare
     Logical extents	238344 to 476687



On 2009-11-05, at 10:10 AM, Ray Morris wrote:

> What is the output of?:
>
> pvdisplay -m /dev/mapper/cryptsda
>
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> On 11/05/2009 01:57:53 AM, Adam Mooz wrote:
>> Hello List,
>> I have a fileserver that is driving me nuts at the moment.  Setup:
>> 4x 1TB HDD's
>> 1x 320GB HDD
>> They all have the same partition layout:
>> 512MB Swap, rest is LVM data.
>> The LVM only contains ~400GB of data, but 2 of the TB drives report  
>> having 0 free PFree's:
>>  PV                   VG        Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
>>  /dev/mapper/cryptsda fileshare lvm2 a-   931.03G      0
>>  /dev/mapper/cryptsdb fileshare lvm2 a-   931.03G      0
>>  /dev/mapper/cryptsdc fileshare lvm2 a-   297.61G 297.61G
>>  /dev/mapper/cryptsdd fileshare lvm2 a-   931.03G 633.42G
>>  /dev/mapper/cryptsde           lvm2 --   931.04G 931.04G
>> I've successfully managed to remove SDE from the LVM, but I need to  
>> move the data off SDD onto either SDA or SDB.  When the whole  
>> system is mounted it properly reports having 2.1TB of free space  
>> (931 * 2 + 297). Is there an easy way to fix this issue?
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