Can't create a logical volume, have no problems doing it on another rawhide box. Plenty of space, I've done this ++++ times and for some reason this box is just causing a problem. "permission denied" Could this be a dieing HD? The box has 4x36GB scsi drives in it, in Raid0/lvm config. [root@trinity ~]# lvcreate -L2G -nLogVol08 VolGroup01 Logical volume "LogVol08" created [root@trinity ~]# mke2fs -j /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol08 mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) Could not stat /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol08 --- Permission denied [root@trinity ~]# mkfs.ext3 -F -j /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol08 mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) mkfs.ext3: Permission denied while trying to determine filesystem size # mkfs.ext3 -F -j /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol08 mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) mkfs.ext3: Permission denied while trying to determine filesystem size ]# mkfs.ext3 -F -j /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol08 mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) mkfs.ext3: Permission denied while trying to determine filesystem size [root@trinity ~]# mke2fs -f /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol08 mke2fs: bad fragment size - /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol08 [root@trinity ~]# id -Z root:system_r:unconfined_t [root@trinity ~]# ls -la /sbin/ | grep mkfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7192 May 3 23:30 mkfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15872 May 3 23:30 mkfs.cramfs -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 35888 May 10 04:17 mkfs.ext2 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 35888 May 10 04:17 mkfs.ext3 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 30180 Apr 28 09:31 mkfs.msdos -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 30180 Apr 28 09:31 mkfs.vfat [root@trinity ~]# lsmod | grep ext3 ext3 133193 8 jbd 61785 1 ext3 [root@trinity ~]# vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name VolGroup01 System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 12 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 9 Open LV 8 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 101.28 GB PE Size 32.00 MB Total PE 3241 Alloc PE / Size 672 / 21.00 GB Free PE / Size 2569 / 80.28 GB VG UUID 8A535T-TOpJ-Fzkg-BREJ-TJE7-E3Lp-nChZOg The differences on the box that work don't work are following, Works (x86_64/rawhide) # rpm -qa | grep lvm lvm2-2.01.08-1.0 <----- WHY 2? lvm2-2.01.08-2.1 system-config-lvm-0.9.32-1.0 # rpm -qa | grep e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-devel-1.37-4 e2fsprogs-1.37-4.x86_64 e2fsprogs-1.37-4.i386 Doesn't work (x86/Rawhide) # rpm -qa | grep lvm lvm2-2.01.08-2.1 system-config-lvm-0.9.32-1.0 # rpm -qa | grep e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-devel-1.37-4 e2fsprogs-1.37-4 Both box's are in a soft raid/lvm config, Not sure why the i386 box defaulted to VolGroup01 but shouldn't matter in any case.