On Wednesday 25 September 2002 11:25, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > that could be either some regular access to extents residing on hdb So you are saying that the volume can be used (like accessing hdb) even though hdc is spun down? Amazing - I did not know that was possible. But if, it is a good explanation as my volume still has plenty of space so hdc would not be accessed until hdb is full. -- Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/