I had to disable sysfs_scan before pvcreate accepted to use /dev/hde3 on a little MIPS box. How does LVM decide whether sysfs tells it to use a block device or not? And why would /dev/hde (an internal IDE drive) be presented by sysfs as "not to be used by LVM"? Stefan _______________________________________________ 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/