Ooops, here's what I meant to post: arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9729. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 1912 15358108+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 1913 1925 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1926 9729 62685630 8e Linux LVM Command (m for help): q arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # cat lvm.txt #load device module modprobe dm-mod #change the volumes that exist to active vgchange -ay #mount the logical partition mkdir -p /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00 mount /dev/hda3/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00 arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # ./lvm.txt 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active mount: special device /dev/hda3/VolGroup00/LogVol00 does not exist (a path prefix is not a directory) arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # date Sun Oct 7 01:17:51 PDT 2007 arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ #