LV volume space always loses 33M?

Alan Mckinnon alan at linuxholdings.co.za
Mon Sep 4 14:48:44 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 21:40 +0100, Gabriel M Dragffy wrote:
> This volume is empty but 33M has disappeared. It would seem all
> volumes
> "lose" 33M... where and why? Can this be changed?
> 
In order, the answers to your questions are:

- somewhere on the disk, but you don't care about that
- overhead, so that lvm can do amongst other things know how your
extents are allocated
- no.

alan





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