On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 16:23 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > vgcreate VolGroup01 /dev/hdb2 did not work. i get: WARNING: Duplicate VG name VolGroup00: Existing 4O0f0O-fFa4-6Qfo-KRBh-knvO-WYsC-v3uVHK (created here) takes precedence over CifEpP-vH2h-fb16-XERE-EmJA-HqWu-pDkiUW Physical volume '/dev/hdb2' is already in volume group 'VolGroup00' Unable to add physical volume '/dev/hdb2' to volume group 'VolGroup01'.