> 4K pagesize, not blocksize. [filesystem] blocksizes smaller than 4K > are also supported. Thats unrelated to this problem though, which is > related to the device driver blocksize... mkfs is trying to tell the > device to do IOs in 512 byte chunks, but its not listening. There's > some corner cases where mkfs will fail if the device driver ignores > its request to change the device block size. ok. sorry. rephrasing. Linux on IA32 does not support blocksize > pagesize, which means Linux on IA32 supports 512, 1024, 2048 and 4096 bytes per block -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows. _______________________________________________ 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