I Have: ADSM Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.40 following is the list of my ADSM database volumes, and log volumes. itb > pwd /adsm itb > ls -alt | head total 10506280 -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 105906176 Oct 01 09:32 logvol1.dsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 550502400 Oct 01 09:30 dbvol1.dsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 525336576 Oct 01 09:29 bkpoolvol2.dsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 525336576 Oct 01 09:29 logvol1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 1049624576 Oct 01 09:29 logvol2.dsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 2097152000 Oct 01 09:12 bkpoolvol1.dsm But wen you go through GUI you see only 2 volumes listed, as following: Object view --> Database --> Database Volumes: /adsm/dbvol1.dsm.. /adsm/bkpoolvol2.dsm.. What happened to bkpoolvol1.dsm ?? if you look at the time stamp for this file, you see that it been in use. I noticed that the bkpoolvol2.dsm is assigned to: Database Space Trigger-->DB Expansion prefix Thanks for your help. Alyn ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup