On Friday, February 25, 2011 08:15:34 am Rudi Ahlers wrote: > [root at francois-pc ~]# lvcreate -L 500gig -n 500G freenas > Insufficient free extents (127999) in volume group freenas: 128000 required > How do I actually create a 500GB volume? try lvcreate -l 127999 -n 500G freenas The default '500G' size is 12,800 extents, but you only have 12,799 extents free; which gets rounded *up* to 500G by the free space display. And that's a lower-case 'L' option, not an upper-case 'I' option.