My logical volume reports a size of X while 'df' reports a smaller size. Why?
Issue
- Following a logical volume extend using
lvresizeorlvextendmy filesystem size does not match the newly resized logical volume.
# lvscan -a
ACTIVE '/dev/vg_example/lv_root' [6.00 GiB] inherit <------\
ACTIVE '/dev/vg_example/lv_swap' [1.00 GiB] inherit |
|
# df -h | Different sizes
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
/dev/mapper/vg_example-lv_root |
3.6G 3.5G 0 100% / <----------------/
tmpfs 7.8G 100K 7.8G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/vda1 485M 54M 406M 12% /boot
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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