Disk Says It is Full But There's Nothing on It

[Eric Robinson]

Two new Dell R640 servers, same OS and firmware.  One of the servers shows the drive usage correctly, as they don't have anything on them yet...

[root at store11a ~]# nvme list
Node                  Generic               SN                   Model                                    Namespace  Usage                      Format           FW Rev
--------------------- --------------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------- -------------------------- ---------------- --------
/dev/nvme0n1          /dev/ng0n1            7170A00CTCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1          1.50  MB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1
/dev/nvme1n1          /dev/ng1n1            6240A0XMTCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1          1.49  MB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1
/dev/nvme2n1          /dev/ng2n1            6240A0T8TCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1          1.48  MB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1
/dev/nvme3n1          /dev/ng3n1            6240A1LRTCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1          1.48  MB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1
/dev/nvme4n1          /dev/ng4n1            6240A0XWTCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1          1.47  MB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1
/dev/nvme5n1          /dev/ng5n1            6240A0XZTCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1          1.47  MB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1
/dev/nvme6n1          /dev/ng6n1            6240A1H0TCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1          1.47  MB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1
/dev/nvme7n1          /dev/ng7n1            6240A0T4TCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1          1.47  MB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1

The other servers shows that the drives are completely full.

[root at store11c ~]# nvme list
Node                  Generic               SN                   Model                                    Namespace  Usage                      Format           FW Rev
--------------------- --------------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------- -------------------------- ---------------- --------
/dev/nvme0n1          /dev/ng0n1            6240A0Y0TCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1         15.36  TB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1
/dev/nvme1n1          /dev/ng1n1            6240A0T2TCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1         15.36  TB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1
/dev/nvme2n1          /dev/ng2n1            6230A0N9TCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1         15.36  TB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1
/dev/nvme3n1          /dev/ng3n1            62D0A0FFTCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1         15.36  TB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1
/dev/nvme4n1          /dev/ng4n1            62D0A0FPTCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1         15.36  TB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1
/dev/nvme5n1          /dev/ng5n1            6240A0XNTCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1         15.36  TB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1
/dev/nvme6n1          /dev/ng6n1            6240A1BJTCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1         15.36  TB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1
/dev/nvme7n1          /dev/ng7n1            6240A0Q4TCG8         Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 15.36TB             0x1         15.36  TB /  15.36  TB    512   B +  0 B   2.2.1

I have not been able to find any hidden partitions or data on the drives.

What's up with this?


-Eric




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