Hi Richard, New partitions
# fdisk -l /dev/hda1 * 83 Linux /dev/hda2 83 Linux /dev/hda3 82 Linux Swap/Solaris /dev/hda4 8e Linux LVM * end * > Can you post the output of 'grep -v -e "^ *#" -e "^ *$" > /etc/lvm/lvm.conf'. devices { dir = "/dev" scan = [ "/dev" ] filter = [ "a|/dev/hda4|", "r/.*/" ] cache = "/etc/lvm/.cache" write_cache_state = 1 sysfs_scan = 1 md_component_detection = 1 } log { verbose = 0 syslog = 1 overwrite = 0 level = 0 indent = 1 command_names = 0 prefix = " " } backup { backup = 1 backup_dir = "/etc/lvm/backup" archive = 1 archive_dir = "/etc/lvm/archive" retain_min = 10 retain_days = 30 } shell { history_size = 100 } global { umask = 077 test = 0 activation = 1 proc = "/proc" locking_type = 1 locking_dir = "/var/lock/lvm" } activation { missing_stripe_filler = "/dev/ioerror" mirror_region_size = 512 reserved_stack = 256 reserved_memory = 8192 process_priority = -18 } * end * > Also you might try taking a look at the output of > pvscan -vv, and make sure that hda4 shows up. Setting global/locking_type to 1 Setting global/locking_dir to /var/lock/lvm File-based locking enabled. Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices Wiping internal VG cache Walking through all physical volumes /dev/hda4: size is 73170720 sectors /dev/hda4: size is 73170720 sectors (repeated here) /dev/hda4: No label detected No matching physical volumes found * end * B.R. SL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list