> And, although I initialized it, the total size of that volume is still > shown > as 149GB, when it should now be about 186GB. Maybe it takes a reboot? I > dunno. Go for the reboot. If still no joy, try running pvscan and see where all your volumes are allocated. vgdisplay might also be of some value. vgscan to see if there are any lingering volume groups that you were not expecting? I'm not sure a merge is what should have been done. Seems like an extend would have made more sense. I don't trust the graphical tools so I do it all from the command line. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.