And things were going so well... I'm trying to create an LVM volume using YAST and recycling some of my older, smaller hard drives. These drives are in USB housings on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. The LVM creation process goes fine, as far as I can tell: I partition both drives as LVM partitions, add them to the Volume Group, and set up the mount point in fstab. At this point, the volume shows up under df, is fully accessible, and I start loading it with files. Everything works fine. As long as I keep the computer on, I can read/write to the volume all day. But, if I reboot the computer, the boot process halts with an fsck error on the LVM, and I can't get fsck to run a check on it -- I keep getting "please run fsck manually" messages, but that's what I'm *trying* to do. In the end, the only way I can get through boot is to remove the LVM from fstab and reboot. After which, I haven't been able to figure out a way to re-mount the volume manually. So far, I've tried ext2, ext3, and reiser, all with the same results, so I don't think it's the file system. My guess is, I'm either doing something wrong during the LVM setup, or there's a problem putting an LVM on USB drives and mounting it under fstab. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org