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windows 2003 sp2 server not seeing entire disk
I have a server that was prresented a LUN of 360 gig. In disk mgmt, it shows the volume/partition size as 250 gig. It is not seeing the entire Disk(LUN). There is not any unallocated space available. Does anyone have any ideas??
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Amirchoupani
Isn't the LUN configured as RAID5.
ASKER
Yes.
So there will be some space used to store parity.
RAID-5 takes 1/n of your space to write parities, so in the event of a disk failure no data be lost.
Exp: if you use 4 disk each 72 GB, there will be only 3*72 GB space not 4*72 GB.
RAID-5 takes 1/n of your space to write parities, so in the event of a disk failure no data be lost.
Exp: if you use 4 disk each 72 GB, there will be only 3*72 GB space not 4*72 GB.
ASKER
Yeah, I understand Raid 5. Within Disk mgmt, it shows the volume size as 250 gig. Down below it shows the disk, at 360 gig. Where is the other 110 gig??
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I didn't realize the amount of space taken by the paritys and other things.
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