Hi all, hi Dirk, just I tried to create at first an extended partition and after that an LANstep partition and now the pvcreate command works. Thanks to all! Stephan -- LDS Brandenburg Dr. Stephan Hendl fon: +49-(0)331-39 471 fax: +49-(0)331-27548 1187 EMail: stephan.hendl at lds.brandenburg.de