Hello, I am running Suse 7.2 Professional and we were playing around with the LVM and were trying to remove existing volumes and create new ones. To make a long story short, I am getting the following error message when I run vgscan: found inactive volume group "vg00" only found 0 of 4340 LEs for LV /dev/vg00/lvol1(0) Error "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE and LV" cant get data of volume group "vg00" from physical volume(s) ... I don't care about recovery, I just want to clean up and start over. Can someone give me the steps to clean this mess up so I can start over? This is a lab machine and there was no data on these volumes. Thanks, Michael C. Bradburn Systems Engineer, ESE - Oracle Compaq Computer Corporation (281) 518-9127 Michael.Bradburn@Compaq.com