Hi. I have a 640G drive I put back in a laptop, that now is showing up in the "File System" as a vg_dell45 icon, as well as showing up under the disk utility as a "Multi-disk Device" The drive didn't appear in these areas before. Here's the situation: -Took the drive out of the laptop -Inserted the drive into a usb external bay, copied a bunch of files to a separate system -Before copying the drive, I ran the "vgchange -ay" cmd to be able to access the different partitions on the drive and copy the data -the initial system is an old FC13, the newer system is a Centos6.5 -after copying, I then reinserted the drive back in the initial FC13 system. -everything boots, appears to run -however, when I look at the GUI File System/Disk Uility apps, I get what I mentioned above... I then did a fdisk -l and I see that the drive no longer appears to contain valid partition tables!!! So, something has happened. Researching doesn't point to anything, so I'm looking for pointers as to the bonehead screwup I did, as well as how to correct it. Here's the output of the fdisk -l [root@dell-1 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x28000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 64 512000 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 64 77826 624618496 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/dm-0: 268.4 GB, 268435456000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 32635 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 8220 MB, 8220835840 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 999 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-2: 80.5 GB, 80530636800 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9790 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-3: 161.1 GB, 161061273600 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19581 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-3 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-4: 89.1 GB, 89120571392 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10834 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-4 doesn't contain a valid partition table [root@dell-1 ~]# vgchange -ay 5 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_dell45" now active [root@dell-1 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x28000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 64 512000 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 64 77826 624618496 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/dm-0: 268.4 GB, 268435456000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 32635 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 8220 MB, 8220835840 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 999 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-2: 80.5 GB, 80530636800 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9790 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-3: 161.1 GB, 161061273600 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19581 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-3 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-4: 89.1 GB, 89120571392 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10834 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-4 doesn't contain a valid partition table here's the df -h for what it's worth.. [root@dell-1 ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_dell45-lv_root 247G 188G 46G 81% / tmpfs 2.9G 356K 2.9G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 485M 66M 394M 15% /boot /dev/mapper/vg_dell45-lv_apps 148G 91G 50G 65% /apps /dev/mapper/vg_dell45-lv_home 74G 616M 70G 1% /home /dev/mapper/vg_dell45-lv_backup 82G 7.3G 71G 10% /backup So, how can i get this back to normal! Thanks -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org