The drive I got was two gigabytes smaller than the original, and thus: [21:42] lectric(pts/8):~# vgcfgrestore -n archive /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 vgcfgrestore -- size of physical volume /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 differs from backup The original disc was: PVs: [AN] ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 60030976 /3664 21331968 /1302 38699008/2362 and it now is 58633312 blocks according to fdisk. Is there a way to still restore the remaining VG?-o Sounds like the backup would need to be modified. The physical extents that were in the dead device would need to be either removed from the VG or allocated from another device? -- _____________________________________________________________________ / __// /__ ____ __ Erkki Seppälä\ \ / /_ / // // /\ \/ //ircnet Modeemi Ry\ / /_/ /_/ \___/ /_/\_\@modeemi.fi http://www.modeemi.fi/~flux/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html