Hi, When I shutdown (or halt) on the console I get the message: Can't deactivate volume group "vg00" with 1 open logical volume(s) Which seems reasonable because my root partition is a logical volume, but I'm new to LVM2 and figure it's better to ask now than suffer wierd data corruption later. Is this message normal? Do I have a problem? Here's more detail: Debian sarge. Fresh install. Linux 2.6 kernel. (2.8.8-2-686) /dev/hda 300GB WD ATA drive. Only disk. /dev/hda1 400MB /boot /dev/hda2 299.6GB Extended partition /dev/hda5 299.6GB Linux LVM /dev/vg00 volume group with all of /dev/hda5 /dev/vg00/swap 400MB swap /dev/vg00/root 5GB / remainder of vg unused All file systems ext3. Drive: WDC WD3000JB-00KFA0 (Gnasty WD drive has all jumpers removed to be lone master.) System: 400MHz Celeron IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) Thanks. Karl <kop@meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein _______________________________________________ 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/