Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > Exactly which version of LVM2 was this (e.g. output of 'lvm version')? # lvm version LVM version: 2.02.07 (2006-07-17) Library version: 1.02.08 (2006-07-17) Driver version: 4.5.0 > >> # cat /sys/block/sdb/size >> 12695042048 > > Use the 'blockdev' command - that gets the sizes the same way that lvm2 > does. Hopefully not the same way as "blockdev --getsz" does it (which silently fails on that disk; "blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sdb" reports the correct size in bytes) Regards, Peter Daum _______________________________________________ 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/