LVM2 incorrectly reporting one of my drives are full

I have three drives in a LVM group and the pvdisplay is saying that one of my drives is full but when I look at df my system usage only says I'm using only a couple of gigs. The following is the output of both pvdisplay, lvdisplay, and df:
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda3
VG Name system
PV Size 84.20 GiB / not usable 4.02 MiB
Allocatable yes
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 21553
Free PE 21553
Allocated PE 0
PV UUID 1Rd2rD-WXPd-4V43-Rn8a-3iq9-Gzr9-KnGBVc
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdb1
VG Name system
PV Size 232.88 GiB / not usable 673.00 KiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 59618
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 59618
PV UUID 1SKHYW-q8GQ-mafu-DhHd-Xprk-wxsr-NzPPQ7
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdc1
VG Name system
PV Size 232.88 GiB / not usable 673.00 KiB
Allocatable yes
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 59618
Free PE 36248
Allocated PE 23370
PV UUID 5aXwSX-CfqT-dGol-GEyl-2RTJ-WFvP-fycHZX
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/system/root
VG Name system
LV UUID QKjbN4-3xO3-bAJC-xgzL-5tdz-92lw-i7jp5w
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 320.00 GiB
Current LE 81920
Segments 2
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:0
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/system/swap
VG Name system
LV UUID 5yeEwa-OcX5-tRlJ-6jXQ-ubI5-XMEj-I6Mjul
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 4.00 GiB
Current LE 1024
Segments 1
Allocation contiguous
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:1
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/system/home
VG Name system
LV UUID t41cTt-jMVO-QaHX-keSq-1u96-x1dU-MffUS9
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 176.00 MiB
Current LE 44
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:2
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 10M 128K 9.9M 2% /dev
/dev/dm-0 320G 1.9G 319G 1% /
shm 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/system-home
175M 2.8M 173M 2% /home
/dev/sda2 376G 1.5G 355G 1% /backups
/dev/sda1 92M 17M 70M 20% /boot
Another question I have is why does one of my logical volumes show as /dev/dm-0 instead of /dev/mapper/system-root?

looking at the reports again, my assumption that sda3 and sdc1 were not used in a LV was wrong.
you can try 'vgdisplay -v' 'pvdisplay -v' and 'lvdisplay -v' to get more info.
I have a simpler setup then you with only 1 LV (home) , but below is the output of those 3 commands on my system :
vgdisplay -v
vgdisplay -v
Finding all volume groups
Finding volume group "vg1"
--- Volume group ---
VG Name vg1
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 4
Metadata Sequence No 5
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 1
Open LV 1
Max PV 0
Cur PV 4
Act PV 4
VG Size 2.27 TiB
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 596148
Alloc PE / Size 596148 / 2.27 TiB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID jP8ZeZ-imFW-BTm0-x26r-P1L2-3dx9-a2Ccqu
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg1/lvhome
VG Name vg1
LV UUID 70nxRZ-qb29-XEDV-thKB-jQx6-6pcm-4jyuEc
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 2.27 TiB
Current LE 596148
Segments 4
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:0
--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/sda3
PV UUID sHFPdq-Fpi9-rxwT-Xakt-S15P-90S9-7Sfvhc
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 47675 / 0
PV Name /dev/sdb1
PV UUID oUmLMT-q1Ny-EM3w-Ri2P-gLC9-UwTA-kPNMCl
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 71541 / 0
PV Name /dev/sdc1
PV UUID Pt6D85-FsM4-SpRi-X7JJ-xe0J-ehy1-fGpPZE
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 238466 / 0
PV Name /dev/sdd1
PV UUID lQSQgF-zGdP-FrfJ-FGv8-8Xjv-Xviq-2uW0ZT
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 238466 / 0
pvdisplay -v
pvdisplay -v
Scanning for physical volume names
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda3
VG Name vg1
PV Size 186.23 GiB / not usable 1.28 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 47675
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 47675
PV UUID sHFPdq-Fpi9-rxwT-Xakt-S15P-90S9-7Sfvhc
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdb1
VG Name vg1
PV Size 279.46 GiB / not usable 1.63 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 71541
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 71541
PV UUID oUmLMT-q1Ny-EM3w-Ri2P-gLC9-UwTA-kPNMCl
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdc1
VG Name vg1
PV Size 931.51 GiB / not usable 3.19 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 238466
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 238466
PV UUID Pt6D85-FsM4-SpRi-X7JJ-xe0J-ehy1-fGpPZE
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdd1
VG Name vg1
PV Size 931.51 GiB / not usable 3.19 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 238466
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 238466
PV UUID lQSQgF-zGdP-FrfJ-FGv8-8Xjv-Xviq-2uW0ZT
lvdisplay -v
lvdisplay -v
Finding all logical volumes
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg1/lvhome
VG Name vg1
LV UUID 70nxRZ-qb29-XEDV-thKB-jQx6-6pcm-4jyuEc
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 2.27 TiB
Current LE 596148
Segments 4
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:0

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