On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:21:44PM +0100, Beginner wrote: > # mkfs -t ext2 /dev/mapper/volgrp0-volume1 > mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) > Could not stat /dev/mapper/volgrp0-volume1 --- Permission denied Assuming you ran that as 'root', check permissions and security context (if selinux is enabled) using 'ls'. (Also try 'vgmknodes'.) Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com _______________________________________________ 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/