This is likely a problem between keyboard and chair, but it has got me confused all the same. I was having issues with rsync, so I switched to dd and the same problem persists. Any suggestions? History says "lvcreate --size 8589934592b --name ciphershed-dmz-http vg_five66" root@five-66 ~ # dd of=/dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http bs=512 if=/dev/zero dd: writing `/dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http': No space left on device 8580489+0 records in 8580488+0 records out 4393209856 bytes (4.4 GB) copied, 11.1884 s, 393 MB/s root@five-66 ~ # lvdisplay /dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http LV Name ciphershed-dmz-http VG Name vg_five66 LV UUID 3yQHr9-WpdJ-76eL-4lEZ-hv0X-HP3N-GgqOvN LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time five-66.pdinc.us, 2015-02-17 05:05:17 -0500 LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 8.00 GiB Current LE 2048 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:3 root@five-66 ~ # vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name vg_five66 System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 36 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 5 Open LV 2 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 1.82 TiB PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 476806 Alloc PE / Size 19866 / 77.60 GiB Free PE / Size 456940 / 1.74 TiB VG UUID drT68w-cRLR-ZcmV-VYFz-haaK-Djd4-S8q9EV root@five-66 ~ # rpm -qf `which vgdisplay` lvm2-2.02.111-2.el6_6.1.x86_64 root@five-66 ~ # uname -a Linux five-66.pdinc.us 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 28 21:11:36 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. _______________________________________________ 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/