I'm on centOS 6.4.
I have a 39TB hardware RAID configured as RAID 6.
I created a single 39TB partition with parted. It reports:
(parted) print
Model: JetStor JetStor -VOL#000 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 39.0TB Sector
size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1
1049kB 39.0TB 39.0TB primary
I created an lvm linear volume like so:
pvcreate /dev/sdb1
vgcreate vg_jet716s /dev/sdb1
lvcreate -L 30T -n lv_jet716s_1 vg_jet716s
Then I created an XFS fs on lv_jet716s_1, matching the raid stripe width and number:
mkfs.xfs -d su=64k,sw=13 /dev/mapper/vg_jet716s-lv_jet716s_1
But pvs outputs this:
[root@cfile ~]# pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda2 vg_cfile lvm2 a-- 464.76g 285.62g
/dev/sdb1 vg_jet716s lvm2 a-- 35.47t 5.47t
I don't think I checked what pvs was outputing after creating just the physical volume. I probably only called 'lvs' to see that the logical volume had been created witht the right size. Here's lvs and vgs:
[root@cfile ~]# lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
lv_root vg_cfile -wi-ao--- 50.00g
lv_swap vg_cfile -wi-ao--- 31.48g
lv_var vg_cfile -wi-ao--- 97.66g
lv_jet716s_1 vg_jet716s -wi-ao--- 30.00t
[root@cfile ~]# vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
vg_cfile 1 3 0 wz--n- 464.76g 285.62g
vg_jet716s 1 1 0 wz--n- 35.47t 5.47t
Any thoughts? I'm new to this and it's really surprising to lose almost 10% of my space. Thanks!
-Michael
Best Answer
Unfortunately, your tools are not being meticulous about whether values are in TB or TiB. The volume is actually about 36 TiB, not 36 TB. The partition is actually about 39 TB, not 39 TiB.
36 TiB = (36 * 1024) GiB = 36,864 GiB
36,864 GiB = (36,864 * 1024) MiB = 37,748,736 MiB.
If you go all the way to bytes, you get 39,582,418,599,936 bytes, or about 39.6 TB.
So 36 TiB is approximately 39 TB.