Well, it's working ! I removed the lvm 1.0.3-10 rpm, and compiled the 1.0.6 tools, then set up libraries and manually placed files in a similar way to a note I saw from Bill Blunn in Feb 02, and I've now got a functioning VG and Lvols with ext3 ! It's all started to go right with that little patch for alloc_sz etc. Just to be on the safeside, I've been taking full backups of the 3390s from the os/390 side before I made major changes ! Thanks for your help Peter and Patrick. _______________________________________________ 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/