Poul, It is well known that pvmove of live volumes in LVM1 is broken for a couple of reasons, the most obvious being the deadlock under memory pressure that you are experiencing. I would encourage you to try Stephen Tweedies patch and post your findings. In the longer term the solution is to move to LVM2; we are currently working on pvmove and will have it in the next beta (beginning of June), pvmove is the last major feature from LVM1 that LVM2 doesn't yet support. - Joe _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html