I've got a machine with 4 harddrives. 2*100GB and 2*120GB. Running hardware raid 1 on a 3ware. That part works. Until recently the first LVM appeared to be working, or, it does still work. How ever, when we added the new raid1, the 2*120GB drives, we didnt get the full +120GB space. Where is it ?? The other question is: running pvdisplay on /dev/sda5 says it is available in the PV STATUS field, but for /dev/sdb1 it says NOT available. We did run a pvcreate on /dev/sdb1 and then vgextend. using vgdisplay, it appears to have become 100GB larger, but if it is larger, why isnt it available ? We have tried to deactivate and activate the LVM ? JonB _______________________________________________ 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