I just setup LVM with two disks in the volume group big_space. I started out with one disk and then extended it across the other. It formatted, fs extended, and mounted up fine. I then rebooted, and now I get this error from vgscan: vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- found inactive volume group "big_space" vgscan -- ERROR "pv_read_pe(): read" can't get data of volume group "big_space" from physical volume(s) vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group Any ideas or suggestions? Unfortunately I threw data onto the volume and don't want to loose it. Andrew Schaefer andrew@schaefer.nu http://www.schaefer.nu