Hey! I have a problem that I hope you could help me with. To make a long story short, I have installed a brand new linux (mandrake) system and got my old Volume up and running. It works very well, except for one thing. When I try to extend my vg with a new harddrive it says following: vgextend -v movies /dev/sda vgextend -- locking logical volume manager vgextend -- checking volume group name "movies" vgextend -- checking volume group "movies" existence vgextend -- checking for inactivity of volume group vgextend -- reading data of volume group "movies" from lvmtab vgextend -- INFO: maximum logical volume size is 2 Terabyte vgextend -- reading data for all physical volumes from disk(s) vgextend -- extending VGDA structures of volume group "movies" vgextend -- ERROR: no physical volumes usable to extend volume group "movies" I cant locate the problem, everything looks allright but there is maybe something I am missing? I am trying to extend the volume group by two discs as you can see from my cut n paste from a pvscan. Everything like pvdisplay and such seem to work. What to do? --- Volume group --- VG Name movies VG Access read/write VG Status available/resizable VG # 0 MAX LV 256 Cur LV 1 Open LV 1 MAX LV Size 2 TB Max PV 256 Cur PV 4 Act PV 4 VG Size 377.16 GB PE Size 32 MB Total PE 12069 Alloc PE / Size 12069 / 377.16 GB Free PE / Size 0 / 0 VG UUID joYSOs-THNu-lelx-XAsN-5SPg-EAI9-Yv8Kxs pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc" is in no VG [33.90 GB] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc" of VG "movies" [33.84 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc" of VG "movies" [114.44 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/disc" of VG "movies" [114.44 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc" of VG "movies" [114.44 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7" is in no VG [98.68 GB] pvscan -- total: 6 [509.98 GB] / in use: 4 [377.40 GB] / in no VG: 2 [132.58 GB] Respectfully, Patrik _______________________________________________ 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/