> my volume group has 48396 PEs free using three disks. whenever i try to setup > a striped LV using 48396 PEs it fails with "please check, if physical volumes > are allocatable". yes, I guess you can't stripe over a single disk. ;-) i.e of those 48396 PEs only 43977 are on 3 disks, the rest is on a single disk. With 43977 PEs you get around 171G. christian _______________________________________________ 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