I have a novice question. How does the LVM protect its metadata. I mean does it do some sort of metadata check when machine comes up (notices the system did not shutdown properly)? Or maybe it uses journaling? I imagine the updates to lv/vg/pv structures have to be transactional. Thanks, Go-Tze __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1