Hi, My vgscan filter problem has been solved. The lvm.conf file as distributed with Gentoo is the example.conf from the LVM2 distribution. In this file the accept filter filter = [ "a/.*/" ] appears earlier in this file as the reject examples. I was assuming that the last match would be significant. After reading again the lvm.conf man page I noticed this assumption was wrong. The first match determines if the device will be accepted or ignored. As simple as this. Thanks to you all for your time. Regards, Chris _______________________________________________ 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/