>The mkfs isn't supposed to be there, just set the new drive's partition >to type '8e' (Linux LVM). Thanks for the quick response. So to recap, for a 144gb drive (/dev/sda1) : 1. fdisk /dev/sda1 type 8e 2. pvcreate /dev/sda1 3. vgextend existing_group_name /dev/sda1 4. lvextend -L+144G /dev/VolGroup00/existing_group_name Does that look correct? Thanks so much once again, Kevin http://blog.stardothosting.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/