When you create your VG, you choose a PE size. I think there is a max of 65k PE's for a disk. See man vgcreate, or the LWN howto. google for: lvm howto linux + i'm feeling lucky JonB _______________________________________________ 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/