On Wed, Oct 16 '02 at 15:02, Anders Henriksson wrote: > I want to run lvm over four linux raid5 devices, can I just treat the > raid devices as discs? i.e. run pvcreate on them directly and go on from > there. You've more than 12 discs in your box? No? Oh, if you ment you're trying to run LVM ontop of a 4disk RAID5 drive (using linux md drivers), than try: pvcreate /dev/md0 vgcreate ... /dev/md0 lvcreate ... I'm running LVM since v1.0.0 ontop of a 6 device RAID5 drive using 2.4.x MD driver. > I am running a linux 7.3 server almost out of the box. And what distribution are you using? But that should not matter. -- 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://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/