<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Mike Wright <<a href="mailto:mike.wright@mailinator.com">mike.wright@mailinator.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi all, This is wrt f10. I have an 80G drive. When I installed f10 I chose a custom layout for it. My intent was to have a separate /boot partition, swap partition, and 4 lvms of approx. 20G each. When all was said and done the drive ended up looking like this: /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 2435 19454715 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2436 4857 19454715 8e Linux LVM /dev/sda4 4858 9964 41021977+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 4858 7279 19454683+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/sda6 7280 7406 1020096 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 7407 9964 20547103+ 8e Linux LVM Certainly not what I intended. Tried lvdisplay and got no results. Tried lvscan first then lvdisplay and got the same outcome. vgdisplay, ditto. pvdisplay, nada. fdisk seems to think there are logical volumes. cat /etc/mtab and I see this: /dev/mapper/pdc_gdgdgcfhp1 (and 2). In fact in /dev/mapper there are 9 of these. Anybody know where this is documented? Is lvm dead? Inquiring minds want to know ;) Thanks for any insight, Mike Wright </blockquote></div> I think what you really want is one volume group and four logical volumes. I think you created 3 volume groups but perhaps someone with more LVM experience would know better. Richard