Also don't forget lvm first takes off a little bit of your disk for its own use then it rounds the disk to your extent size, one of your extents is also reserved for future lvm use, so if you use an extent size of 4 meg 4.3-8.29 (approx) could be "missing" from your disk. James _______________________________________________ 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/