Why do I lose a large amount of space when using LVM?
Issue
- Disks appear to lose a large amount of disk space when using LVM.
- With 17.5 TB disk, LVM only shows 16.3 TB
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 17967.7 GB, 17967781773312 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2184458 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
# pvdisplay /dev/sdb
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdb
VG Name datavg01
PV Size 16.34 TB / not usable 4.00 MB
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 4283852
Free PE 786
Allocated PE 4283066
PV UUID eHQF4F-yR3f-8FpR-P263-ZoJ5-W8j1-AYMRTg
- I created partition of 404GB, but f.s (no LVM) is only 365GB. What occupoes the extra 40GB?
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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