> Is it because of the multi-level device name, and the parser getting confused? Maybe, multi-level device file name canfuse vgs. See my test. # ls -l /dev/cciss/c0d3p3 brw-r----- 1 root disk 104, 51 Jul 22 05:21 c0d3p3 # mknod /dev/c0d3p3 b 104 51 # ls -l /dev/c0d3p3 brw-r--r-- 1 root root 104, 51 Jul 22 05:43 /dev/c0d3p3 # vgs /dev/c0d3p3 Volume group "c0d3p3" not found # echo $? 5 Regards, Masanari Iida _______________________________________________ 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/