On Sun, Jul 14 '02 at 21:05, Kai Weber wrote: > Or I ask for an "you can just add the PV hda2 and it does not matter, if > there is another PV on this disk" advice. It's ok to do this (I do this all the time with my regular setups: install the system to a mini ext2 partition, make the rest LVM, move system to LVM, add former ext2 partition to LVM. As the installers nowadays support LVM this is nolonger needed, but when I started LVM no installer knew it). It is only a bad idea when you want to try striping (for, I hope, obviouse reasons) -- Goetz Bock (c) 2002 as blacknet.de - Munich - Germany /"\ IT Consultant GNU FDL 1.1 secure mobile Linux everNETting \ / X ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML email & microsoft attachments / \ _______________________________________________ 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