I'm trying to do something thst seems very normal to me bash-2.05a# lvchange -a n /dev/0/idolv1 lvchange -- operation not permitted for (open) logical volume "/dev/0/idolv1" Why is the operation not permitted? The LV is not in use, its not mounted, there's no process using it. Any ideas? Thanks, Dan _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/