Montgomery, Kendal L <kendal.montgomery@qwest.com> wrote: > Well.. The reason I say to do it this way is because lvdisplay doesn't > seem to give an "error" code on return (it's always 0) when it's not a > logical volume. It does display an error message that you'd have to > parse the output for a specific error message. I just tried lvdisplay, and now I see what you mean. I misinterpreted the lvdisplay man page, thinking I'd get an error on non-lvm paths. Thanks very much for your help. galen _______________________________________________ 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/