Hi Heinz! On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > But anyway: > > you need to read te first sector of > > /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part1 > and > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1. > > Change unsigned int value (4 byte) at decimal offset 432 to 5 for bus1 > and to 7 for bus0 which should give you unique numbering of PVs and store > them back to the corresponding disks. Thank you for your reply, I did this. PVids are unique now, but vgscan still does not find and activate the volume group. Do you have something else I could try? I think of trying to restore the metadata on all PVs using vgcfgrestore since I have a few copies of vg_stuff.conf in /etc/lvmconf. Would this be a stupid idea? TIA yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred. | : :' : The universal | `. `' Operating System http://www.palfrader.org/ | `- http://www.debian.org/