[Gllug] still wondering about lvm

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Thu Mar 9 21:42:20 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 21:38 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:18:41PM +0000, Adrian wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Firstly what does Incorrect metadata area header checksum mean and how
> > can I fix it (google gives no simple/straight answers afaics and the STN
> > is much better here :))
> > 
> > and if /dev/hda5 is in the Ubuntu VG why doesn't df report it:
> 
> Because /dev/hda5 is not mounted.  /dev/hda5 is a physical volume used
> to create the total storage available to the volume group.  Nor does the
> volume group show up in the output of df, because the volume group is
> not mounted.  /dev/mapper/Ubuntu-root does show up, because it is
> mounted.
> 
> df shows utilisation/free-space on mounted filesystems.


I am aware of that.

I mean why is the mounted lv not of a size that reflects /dev/hda5

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