<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.0.4712.0"> <TITLE>pvcreate error</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Dear All, I just installed a new system and I installed the latest 2.4.16 kernel and the latest LVM tool 1.0.1-rc4. I established a software RAID-5 device(md) and wanted to create a logical volume group on it(as I did with 2.4.7 kernel on another system). However, when I issued the command I got the following error: # pvcreate -v /dev/md2 pvcreate -- locking logical volume manager > pvcreate -- checking physical volume name "/dev/md2" > pvcreate -- getting physical volume size > pvcreate -- checking partition type > pvcreate -- creating new physical volume > pvcreate -- setting up physical volume for /dev/md7 with 0 sectors > pvcreate -- ERROR "parameter error" setting up physical volume "/dev/md2" I checked the archives where I saw suggestion to patch the LVM tool, but I don´t think that is related to the latest version. What is the problem? Should I downgrade to 2.4.7? Thanks in advance, Ferenc </BODY> </HTML>