>Joesph, > >You can create PVs out of any block device (even LVs). > >You don't need to partition past the raw device storage, even that is >optional, but recommended so other OSs know that, yes the space is >actually used, if your using a volume manager like LVM. If you need to >create a partition on a raw multi-terabyte device, you will need a GPT >partition table as MBR stops working at 2TB I believe. Yea, I just pv'ed the raw MD devices out of haste, I only know how to set partition type in script mode with parted, priceless... No time to test what happens w/ parted and manipulating labels etc on MD devices wrt to what happens under them. Bah:) Its running! jlc