After further research and a call to the Response Center, there is an Enhancement request submitted asking that the new "feature" be made optional. I have found that in VOLUTIL if you do a CONTIGVOL <ldev>;TIMEOUT=1;UNRESTRICTED file extents will be moved from the source ldev to the ldev with the most free space. DO NOT USE UNRESTRICTED without a TIMEOUT value as VOLUTIL will attempt to move everything off of the source ldev (Filling up LDEV 1, 3, and 4 on my system). SR is 5003-268938 for those that want to track the problem. James (balanced discs again) Overman