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- From: merrick@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Tom Merrick)
- Subject: Re: disk space
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.131645.19647@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Keywords: disk vg lv df
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:16:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.003726.17271@sobeco.com> emillion@sobeco.com (E.J.Millions) writes:
- >I recently added a disk to an existing volume group and am somewhat
- >puzzled by the difference between df and lslv, as follows
- >
- >% df
- >Filesystem Total KB free %used iused %iused Mounted on
- >/dev/lv04 2097152 865984 58% 15372 2% /mounts/b
- >% lslv lv04
- >LOGICAL VOLUME: lv04 VOLUME GROUP: vg03
- >...
- >MAX LPs: 600 PP SIZE: 4 megabyte(s)
- >COPIES: 1 SCHED POLICY: parallel
- >LPs: 568 PPs: 568
- >...
- >MOUNT POINT: /mounts/b LABEL: /mounts/b
- >
- >Perhaps it is simply that I'm tired and it's time to go home, but
- >the last time I checked 2,097 Meg was not equivalent to 4x568=2,272 Meg.
-
- The largest file size on any OSF compliant unix is 2GB = 2097152KB. The
- only unixes that get above this are the mainframe (370) unixes which do not
- claim to be compliant. So any space you allocate above it will be ignored.
- >
- >Ciao,
- >EjM
- >--
- >Opinions expressed are my own and not those of the company.
- >E. J. Millions Montreal, Quebec, Canada emillion@sobeco.com
-
- Tom Merrick
- Ohio State University
-