device showing less total space than expected

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Issue

  • Hard drive is showing 931GB instead of 1TB.
# pvs /dev/sdz
  PV       VG   Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree  
  /dev/sdz      lvm2 a--  931.32g 931.32g
  • fdisk shows the correct size
Disk /dev/sdz: 1000.0 GB, 1000001765376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121576 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 65536 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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