woohoo! I got it figgered out.. Ive got /dev/sdb1 (10 megs) /dev/sdb2 (rest of disk) make the pools, did the ccs_tool create , did service ccsd start did service lock_gulmd start (but had to figger out my DNS issues first ;) now im at the point where I do gfs_mkfs -p lock_gulm -t bla bla and so now im doing [root@tf1 cluster]# gfs_mkfs -p lock_gulm -t progressive:gfs1 -j 8 /dev/pool/pool0 gfs_mkfs: Partition too small for number/size of journals [root@tf1 cluster]# gfs_mkfs -p lock_gulm -t progressive:gfs1 -j 4 /dev/pool/pool0 gfs_mkfs: Partition too small for number/size of journals [root@tf1 cluster]# gfs_mkfs -p lock_gulm -t progressive:gfs1 -j 2 /dev/pool/pool0 gfs_mkfs: Partition too small for number/size of journals [root@tf1 cluster]# and cant figure out why its giving me grief heres my pools config. poolname pool0 #name of the pool/volume to create subpools 1 #how many subpools make up this subpool 0 128 2 gfs_data #first subpool, zero indexed, 128k stripe, 1 pooldevice 0 0 /dev/sdb1 #physical device for pool 0, device 0 (again, zero indexed) pooldevice 0 1 /dev/sdb2 #physical device for pool 0, device 1 (again, zero indexed) regards, Jason -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster