On Tuesday 02 February 2010 10:21:30 Simon Waters wrote: > Is this due to old metadata on the disk, or is there something going wrong > in the installation process. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb >From the Debian install CD, and then a reboot (otherwise the Debian installer remembers the old LVM information it read from disk when it booted, and complains things aren't like the use to be. _______________________________________________ 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/