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] my pvsacn give this output. now i need to remove "/dev/cciss/c0d1" from my pvscan so i will able to create the partion once again using fdisk what command should i use to remove this ? or can i use fdisk without remove this, is it going to make any impact ?? 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/