I got a dell blade serer with 2 hard drives 146GB each in a hardware mirror
configuration

pvdisplay shows

[root@db2 ~]# pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name               /dev/sda5
VG Name               VolGroup00
PV Size               250.00 GB / not usable 31.81 MB
Allocatable           yes
PE Size (KByte)       32768
Total PE              7999
Free PE               4225
Allocated PE          3774
PV UUID               46Jg3f-rpTv-Pcho-rDW5-hSje-gbtH-yzuUOI

--- Physical volume ---
PV Name               /dev/sda2
VG Name               VolGroup00
PV Size               10.00 GB / not usable 31.81 MB
Allocatable           yes
PE Size (KByte)       32768
Total PE              319
Free PE               319
Allocated PE          0
PV UUID               NfrP5t-lnSN-2OW5-Nmhp-Jzcd-eOb8-FOzaSf

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lvdisplay shows

[root@db2 ~]# lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
VG Name                VolGroup00
LV UUID                ZXelnQ-WMsU-Pfpb-JQRO-QfRT-sj3E-Z2fBWf
LV Write Access        read/write
LV Status              available
# open                 1
LV Size                4.00 GB
Current LE             128
Segments               1
Allocation             inherit
Read ahead sectors     0
Block device           253:0

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol05
VG Name                VolGroup00
LV UUID                St6lL0-SKjb-vBG9-Ov8o-qgCf-Q0a0-ICsCNG
LV Write Access        read/write
LV Status              available
# open                 1
LV Size                50.00 GB
Current LE             1600
Segments               2
Allocation             inherit
Read ahead sectors     0
Block device           253:1

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03
VG Name                VolGroup00
LV UUID                qglOGk-8U2g-g88a-Ne4W-vUvK-mZAp-Ep0X24
LV Write Access        read/write
LV Status              available
# open                 1
LV Size                4.00 GB
Current LE             128
Segments               1
Allocation             inherit
Read ahead sectors     0
Block device           253:2

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02
VG Name                VolGroup00
LV UUID                aM4cYK-T5IA-PSNh-vfiS-7j8f-apuJ-PkvATS
LV Write Access        read/write
LV Status              available
# open                 1
LV Size                8.00 GB
Current LE             256
Segments               1
Allocation             inherit
Read ahead sectors     0
Block device           253:3

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol04
VG Name                VolGroup00
LV UUID                BmxAk3-E9Ua-eL8S-bQj1-8Uwq-FGax-V5MmgQ
LV Write Access        read/write
LV Status              available
# open                 1
LV Size                50.00 GB
Current LE             1600
Segments               2
Allocation             inherit
Read ahead sectors     0
Block device           253:4

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
VG Name                VolGroup00
LV UUID                rZ98VR-2YFq-sT8s-qDIl-uKOz-ZOlt-QmbUB6
LV Write Access        read/write
LV Status              available
# open                 1
LV Size                1.94 GB
Current LE             62
Segments               1
Allocation             inherit
Read ahead sectors     0
Block device           253:5


-----

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
3.9G  745M  3.0G  20% /
/dev/sda3             190M   33M  148M  18% /boot
tmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol05
3.9G  137M  3.6G   4% /home
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03
3.9G  137M  3.6G   4% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02
7.8G  3.7G  3.8G  50% /usr
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04
49G  337M   46G   1% /var
why am i not seeing 146gb instead and seeing 250GB in pvdisplay? Also i want
to create an extra partition call

/repository and give is 30gb


how do i know if there is enough logical space?

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