oh man - this worked flawlessly. very very cool. thanks to all and the work you've done on LVM! cheers! <m> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:45:39AM -0700, Mark wrote: .ah! yes i realized this this morning! . .i'll get that backup started and look at the doc on xfs_growfs. . .cheers! . .<m> . .On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:37:55AM +0200, Jos Visser wrote: ..Hi Mark, .. ..After doing an lvxtend, you must also resize the filesystem that resides ..in the LV. With an ext2fs, this can be achieved using the resize2fs tool ..that is part of the latest ext2fs tools. Be sure to read the manual page ..carefully, and maybe even backup your valuable data first! .. ..++Jos .. -- Mark Garey Tel: (415) 243-4055 x1023 Transvirtual Technologies, Inc., Fax: (415) 243-4056 San Francisco, CA. USA Email: mark@transvirtual.com