sounds fine to me. I had never heard of the %FREE thing though. To fill out a vg I would just check how many extents are available and use that on the command line with -l, remember there are no spaces between -l and the number of extents given. _______________________________________________ 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/