my pvscan give me this result pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/cciss/c0d1" is in no VG [67.83 GB] pvscan -- total: 1 [67.83 GB] / in use: 0 [0] / in no VG: 1 [67.83 GB] but when i am trying to remove the volume i am getting this eror lvremove -f /dev/cciss/c0d1 lvremove -- ERROR: no valid logical volume name "/dev/cciss/c0d1" please help Thanks, Sambit Nanda 203-553-3424 (O) _______________________________________________ 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/