When you have a filesystem in LVM2, are the ext3 blocks within contiguous sometimes - say, if you haven't rearranged things, by adding, removing, migrating things? If it's possible that an ext3 might be a normal ext3 image, beyond some offset from the beginning of a partition due to LVM2 wrapping (I'm thinking like how TCP is wrapped up in an ethernet frame), at what offset does the ext3 filesystem begin within the LVM2 partition? Thanks! _______________________________________________ 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/