On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 10:30:18PM +0200, Yaroslav Popovitch wrote: > if option <sector count> is equal to 0, then dmsetup > reports about error, but still creates device. dmsetup is a simple tool that just stops when something fails: it's up to you to detect the situation and decide what recovery to do. You ran a compound command, equivalent (IIRC) to: dmsetup create --notable ... dmsetup reload ... dmsetup resume ... Alasdair -- agk@xxxxxxxxxx