I hadn't thought of that, but it doesn't seem to be it... # pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/hda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 18.97G 32.00M FC6 created that for my / and /boot and swap... Thanks for the suggestion tho - something I had not considered. Graham ----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Hahn <hahn@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: jahammonds prost <gmitch64@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, 25 February, 2007 10:01:06 PM Subject: Re: trouble creating array > Any ideas how to find out what has it open? I can happily write all over I think I've heard of other cases like this where it's lvm that's glommed onto the partition. I don't use lvm, but perhaps 'lvdisplay'? ___________________________________________________________ All New Yahoo! Mail ? Tired of unwanted email come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html