to all, I am sorry if I am repeating an earlier thread but if it exists I haven't found it yet. I am running Debian (sarge) on a self-compiled 2.6.8. I have installed lvm2 (lvm2_2.01.04-3_i386.deb) and mdadm (mdadm_1.9.0-1_i386.deb). I have created a raid5 disc and am attempting to do a pvcreate upon it. Here are my attempts. # vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... # pvcreate /dev/md2 Physical volume "/dev/md2" successfully created # vgcreate -v /dev/vg00 /dev/md2 Adding physical volume '/dev/md2' to volume group 'vg00' Archiving volume group "vg00" metadata. Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" Volume group "vg00" successfully created # lvcreate -L 500 /dev/vg00 Volume group "vg00" doesn't exist After that failed a couple of times I found on the web to add this line in lvm.conf filter = [ "a|^/dev/md|", "r|.*|" ] Is this bug? Any time you spend on this is appreciated. Brian _______________________________________________ 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/