>pvcreate is the first step of creating LVM areas. If you're not going >to use LVM then you don't need to pvcreate. However I recommend >that you _do_. Yea I guess I was rather vague. I do plan to carve up the md device w/ lvm once it's up. Historically I run pvcreate on lvm partitions for various reasons. Should I create an pvm partition on the md0 device? I was not even sure I could... Thanks! jlc