I thought I understood LVM and set it up correctly on my /dev/hda3. Somethings is wrong though. Here is the output from lvdisplay: LV Name /dev/Volume00/videos VG Name Volume00 LV Write Access read/write LV Status available LV# 1 #open 1 LV Size 68.67 GB Current LE 17579 Allocated LE 17579 Allocation next free Read ahead sectors 1024 Block device 58:0 After the LV was created I did mkfs ext3 -m 0 -T largefile /dev/Volume00/videos Oddities (to me), I try to cd /dev/Volume00/videos - I get a no directory. cd to /dev/Volume00 is acccessible and can be written to. I assumed that i was going to have a videos partition with 68.67 GB available. It looks like I have about 10 megs or something like that as 5 minutes of mpgeg gave me a "device out of space". This is lvm 1.08 , straight from kernel 2.4.23 builtin. Am I just not doing something correct here? Thanks Stuart _______________________________________________ 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/