This was tweaked last in version 2.02.29 and previously in 2.02.11. (Compare the lvm2 version with those.) My favorite way to touch the metaata is vgchange -xn followed by vgchange -xy to put it back (assuming it had that default setting which hardly anyone changes). 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/