Hello, recently I switched from an old SLES7 to a brand new SLES9 adding a qlogic card. Now my system see duplicated PVs. I tried to follow the adive on multipath faq inserting this line filter = [ "r/sd.*/", "a/.*/" ] in my /etc/lvm/lvm.conf. No luck. I'm still getting: # pvscan Found duplicate PV gvIlwNObhtjL6LM3frAHzanQM51ChpJI: using /dev/sde1 not /dev/sdq1 Found duplicate PV Q3mHMG3rzT0Klr6neMsWxwMXmJX5v7dC: using /dev/sdf1 not /dev/sdr1 Found duplicate PV vrwuiYGd1oQ5wLIdYEX2YXwvbhJLZfkK: using /dev/sdg1 not /dev/sds1 Found duplicate PV oXp36gSyE0QvLCS1PF26xpknoA0HJlkN: using /dev/sdh1 not /dev/sdt1 Found duplicate PV 53GzwRqPmFGWtPBB3NvsvZzlVLXsQS3q: using /dev/sdi1 not /dev/sdu1 Found duplicate PV nostyfnXrf7HiCPb5CZBUTjmmOuWXpbX: using /dev/sdj1 not /dev/sdv1 Found duplicate PV DROdioaS5eWp3x6S0m3nOH7J7MjOTEL8: using /dev/sdk1 not /dev/sdw1 Found duplicate PV OLHFaKOhDCTi2F4Wr7JV7GWPpQ8KINtq: using /dev/sdl1 not /dev/sdx1 Found duplicate PV N9gwQytO9eb1jnd3SUKsGPKqbUt8xBMq: using /dev/sdm1 not /dev/sda1 Found duplicate PV AqbigkFpgnqCypskZpW5AUdaEi0GHi6r: using /dev/sdn1 not /dev/sdb1 Found duplicate PV t08y1Tbr3ltk5h7Gaxmf8eyG60Tv3M17: using /dev/sdo1 not /dev/sdc1 Found duplicate PV 9lsZWyLqrb3nWSY1F8nH3MzccOUH6VsQ: using /dev/sdp1 not /dev/sdd1 PV /dev/sdx1 VG oradata3_f lvm2 [37.25 GB / 384.00 MB free] PV /dev/sdw1 VG oradata4_h lvm2 [37.25 GB / 888.00 MB free] PV /dev/sdv1 VG oradata4_g lvm2 [37.25 GB / 384.00 MB free] PV /dev/sdu1 VG oradata8_r lvm2 [37.25 GB / 2.06 GB free] PV /dev/sdt1 VG oradata2_d lvm2 [37.25 GB / 192.00 MB free] PV /dev/sdd1 VG oradata6_l lvm2 [37.25 GB / 2.06 GB free] PV /dev/sds1 VG oradata3_e lvm2 [37.25 GB / 88.00 MB free] PV /dev/sdc1 VG oradata1_a lvm2 [37.25 GB / 188.00 MB free] PV /dev/sdr1 VG oradata2_c lvm2 [37.25 GB / 284.00 MB free] PV /dev/sdb1 VG oradata5_i lvm2 [37.25 GB / 2.06 GB free] PV /dev/sdq1 VG oradata1_b lvm2 [37.25 GB / 88.00 MB free] PV /dev/sda1 VG oradata5_j lvm2 [37.25 GB / 2.06 GB free] Total: 12 [447.00 GB] / in use: 12 [447.00 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] Any idea? Many thanks Fabrizio _______________________________________________ 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/